Word: anse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four acts and an epilogue, subdivided into seven scenes, are required for the author's development of Joan from country maid to Saint. At the outset she appears at Vaucouleurs, where with a few brief sentences she persuades the testy Robert de Baudricourt to grant her soldiers and a horse...
This poster was placarded throughout Paris, appealing to voters to tear up their ballots and to the Orléanists to desert Philippe, Due d'Orléans, and rally to the standard of Louis, Prince de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XVII.
It seems hard to think that Paris, home of revolution though it is, will think seriously about the proclamation of an unknown and unheard of prince. Yet, the Royalist element has been considerably strengthened of late years and if the partisans of the Bourbon, Orléans and Bonaparte causes...
Ferdinand Francois Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier, is brother of Duc d'Orléans, pretender to the throne of France. Nevertheless, the French Republic last week promoted Ferdinand from a chevalier to an officier of the Legion of Honor.
The Duc is popular with almost all Frenchmen, except the Royalists. They are rather divided about him. One group says he has become republicanized; another that he is disqualified for succession to the throne by marrying a commoner; a third that there have been certain amours which are not comme...