Word: aragon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juana, the third of five children born to Ferdinand and Isabella, became heir to the throne after her only brother died and her older sister married the King of Portugal. Another sister was Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife (it was to divorce her and to marry Anne Boleyn that Henry defied the Church of Rome). Isabella married off Juana to Philip the Handsome of Austria, when she was 17. After the birth of a son, Juana's mind began to go. and the philan-derings of Philip are said to have aggravated her illness. Isabella...
...class comic strip; it showed a soldier shooting from a brassy U.S. automobile while a bloated capitalist looked on gloatingly and the proletariat wept over their coffins. Le Figaro called Fougeron's work an "imbecility," and it was too much even for Communist Poet Louis Aragon, who wrote in Les Lettres Françaises: "Fougeron's works are hastily and clumsily painted . . . We must tell André Fougeron, 'Stop here...
...show how and why a princess of "patient, untiring affection" grew into a soured, suspicious queen who was incapable of compromise in the matter of religious heresy. So the real story of Mary has to begin with the canceling of the marriage of her mother, Katherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII...
Maurice Thorez, leader of France's Communists, was returning none too soon. Cried Communist Poet Louis Aragon...
Onetime Poet Louis Aragon cravenly wrote three columns of self-criticism in L'Humanité. Sample: "Too often we admire indiscriminately the poetry, paintings and expressions of certain society . . . Thus the intellectuals of the militant proletariat may occasionally open the gate to counter-revolutionary bourgeois ideas...