Word: allard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Annette Dionne Allard, 24, second Dionne quintuplet (after Cecile) to become a mother, and Finance-Company Official Germain Allard, 25: a son; in Cartierville, Que. Weight...
...most ballyhooed babies of the century, the four surviving Dionne quintuplets-Marie, Annette, Cecile and Yvonne-gathered at Marie's Montreal apartment to celebrate their 24th birthday, let word slip out that Cecile, married to TV Technician Philippe Langlois, and Annette, wife of Finance Company Agent Germain Allard, expect babies within four months. Both girls allowed they wanted lots of children but no quints: "Too much publicity...
...Patrolling the Algerian side of the Tunisian border early one morning, Captain Rene Allard and 43 men of France's 23rd Infantry Regiment came under heavy mortar fire. Before long, 15 Frenchmen lay dead. The rebels, Allard later reported, had launched their attack from nearby Tunisia, were accompanied by vehicles of theTunisian National Guard. When French reinforcements arrived, the Algerians fled back into Tunisia, carrying with them four French prisoners...
...France, where Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba has long been charged with giving aid and comfort to the Algerian rebels, Allard's report offered Premier Félix Gaillard an excellent opportunity to play upon France's touchy national pride -the kind of opportunity he invariably seizes when he finds himself in domestic political difficulties. Last week, little more than 24 hours after the attack, French Ambassador to Tunisia Georges Gorse appeared at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry with a stiff note of protest demanding the return of the four captured Frenchmen...
Married. Annette Dionne, 23, most vivacious of the Canadian quintuplets, the first to wed; and Germain Allard, 24, a finance-company agent; in Montreal...