Word: anse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heavily subsidized by the State, the semi-official French news agency Havas, seldom plays big what the Cabinet wants played small. Last week Havas carried on its wires a manifesto issued in dramatic circumstances by the 30-year-old Comte de Paris, son of the 64-year-old Bourbon- Orl...
Habsburg Archdukes crowded the aisles. Onetime King Alfonso of Spain and his venerable aunt the Infanta Eulalia were on hand as were the Wittelsbach Princes from Bavaria, the Princess Marie Pia of Orléans and a parcel of assorted Bourbons from every branch of that intricate family. Occasion was...
Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for...
From Senlis, from Orléans, from Rouen, Chartres and Lyons they came, 8,000 grey-blue soldiers clumping into a Paris that, for the day, was placidly peaceful. Throughout the city headquarters were set up, rolling kitchens were fired and posts mounted. Workmen were out at dawn scattering clean...
Next day steamship and factory whistles blew, crowds lined the streets for a parade-but not to celebrate the news from Washington. Ignoring that, most Manil-ans were honoring Jose Rizal y Mercado, patriot executed by Spaniards in 1896.