Word: aurillac
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...President Gaston Doumergue, which, after June 13, will be the Palace of President Doumer, the "gue" being dropped. Doumer and Doumergue publicly shook hands, then retired into the Presidential drawing room and shut the door. Paul Doumer was born March 22, 1857, son of a railway gang foreman at Aurillac. His father died, and aged 14 he went to Paris where his mother did scrubwoman's work and such. He was apprenticed to a jeweler, graduated as an engraver of medals. By the time he was 21, Engraver Doumer had studied enough nights to be graduated at the University...
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