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...A.S.W. Rosenbach, famed U.S. bookseller, purchased a fine collection of Napoleonic relics, once the property of the Abb Ange Paul Vignali, one of the Corsican priests sent to minister to the ex-Emperor on the isle of St. Helena...
...priest advanced-"I mock religion," cried the man. "I don't want the aid of priests. If I am going to hell I will know it soon. ... But you, Monsieur l'Abbé-you're a good sort-I like you." They embraced...
...Henri Fabre, by his kinsman, the Abbé Augustin Fabre (Dodd Mead, $2.50); The Human Side of Fabre, by Percy F. Bicknell (Century, $2.50); This Earth of Ours, a children's geology by Fabre (Century...
...Abbé Moreux, director of the Bourges Observatory, France, in a book, The Mysterious Science of the Pharaohs, revealed the fact that the Great Pyramid of Cheops was built by possessors of most profound mathematical, geographical and astronomical knowledge, and embodies many principles which have been rediscovered by modern scientists only in the comparatively recent past. It was probably used as an observatory by Egyptian astronomers, who knew how to measure the earth, the distance between earth and sun and the length of an ideal meridian. The perimeter of the pyramid, divided by its height, gives 3.1416, the geometrical...