Word: alengon
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...Frappe, frappe." "Qui va la?" "Alenyon." "Alengon qui?" "Alengonfants de la patrie...
...situation was worst in France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and pupils. Chief Flu-Fighter Dr. Lucien Bernard, of the Ministry of Public Health, was struck down himself...
...while it seemed that Leicester's marriage might change the course of history by provoking his angry Queen into marriage herself. When France's Duke of Alengon sent an ambassador to sound her out, Elizabeth fondly nicknamed the ambassador "her Monkey," and hugged him to her breast on public occasions. When the hopeful Duke-an ugly little man with pockmarks-scurried over, Elizabeth mooned with him in corners and proclaimed him her long-sought true love. But overnight she decided that he was just a pest-and summoned sweet Robin to escort the Duke home again...
...pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...
Already the Americans had anchored the Allied flank on the Loire near Nantes. To the east was open, rolling country, interlaced with direct roads to Angers, Le Mans, Tours, Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...