Word: autun
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...into a political nuisance called the "Union for the Defense of Commerce and Artisanry." Comes the Revenooer. In Rodez 4,000 UDCAers mobbed tax men trying to in spect the books of M. Salvan's pottery shop, and hustled collectors and their police escorts out of town. At Autun 700 Poujade vigilantes frightened inspectors out of Louis Barnay's butcher shop. At Perigueux 500 defended the town's black smith against collectors. In the past 18 months, some 500 UDCA demonstrations by provincial citizenry have frustrated tax collectors. Moaned a government official...
...unwilling youth, he had been forced into the Church. He retaliated by practising such public debauchery that when his dying father begged Louis XVI to give Talleyrand a bishopric, his mother begged the King "not to disgrace the Church with such a bishop." One month after becoming bishop of Autun, Talleyrand left the Church, joined the Revolution, initiated a bill to strip the Church of all its property in France. Says Ferrero: "The rebellious prisoner had taken advantage of an earthquake to flee over the ruins of his prison...
...broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often of the champagne of life. M. Bernard de Lacombe has seen fit to describe...
...treated the creatures with so little consideration. Even the Pied Piper of Hamlin took the trouble to produce a tune which would appeal to rats. In France and Switzerland animals were granted due process of law and one famous lawyer is know to have defended rats in court at Autun. The interest of some men takes the form a animal study. An English enthusiast reports the appearance of a plague of blind moles, a reaction, he thinks, of the war and the disappearance of the Hanoverian rat, and unwelcome attache to the House of Hanover...
...officially represented the Peabody Museum and the Division of Anthropology at the Prehistoric Congress of France held at Autun in August, and at the International Reunion of Anthropologists held at Cologne in the same month...