Word: aix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Julius Reuter, a German bank clerk, started his business 97 years ago in a pigeon loft at Aix-la-Chapelle, soon expanded into a ubiquitous emissary of the Victorian empire...
Some U.S. and French units of the Seventh Army met bitter resistance even after the great ports (Toulon and Marseilles) and inland centers (Toulouse and Aix) had fallen. These units had no illusions that the German collapse was total. Their casualties were destructive of all illusions...
...also won, was already outflanked; Allied troops were less than nine miles away. The naval base at Toulon, with the tragic wreck of the French fleet rusting in its harbor, was under attack. Avignon, home of the Popes for 76 years, would soon feel the hot breath of war. Aix, heart of Provence, oldest Roman town in Gaul, was directly in the path of the pelting Allied army. The fourth front in Europe was proceeding not according to plan, but better...
Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...