Word: avignon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fabre, son of an unsuccessful innkeeper and his illiterate peasant wife, worked his way through teachers' school by hiring out as a laborer, doing odd jobs, selling lemonade at fairs. For nearly 20 years he was a professor at the Lycee of Avignon, at a salary which never came to more than $320 a year. Sacked in 1870 for letting girls come to his science classes, he supported a wife and five children for nine years by grubbing out popular science books. In the end, he saved enough money to realize a lifetime dream, buying a couple...
...Paris, Brest, Avignon and elsewhere there were demonstrations against the Ramadier Government. Marchers carried placards which said: "Ramadier-Demission-Resign, Ramadier". Some of the demonstrations ended in scuffles with the police. Some appeared to be led by Communists of the French General Confederation of Labor. The Communist Central Committee charged Ramadier with "practising De Gaulle's politics without De Gaulle," and called for a left coalition to beat De Gaulle's French People's Rally in the October elections...
...skipped the usual expository wall-texts. Out from Museum vaults - which house twice as much again as the current show - came such familiar modern land marks as French Primitive Henri Rousseau's haunting, tactile Sleeping Gypsy, Pablo Picasso's monumental, screeching, early cubist Young Women of Avignon (painted in 1906-07 and considered the first cubist picture), Van Gogh's swirling Starry Night. Art lovers who looked for samples of what the Museum is buying today, or accepting as gifts, found...
...meanwhile, Resistance leaders from eleven departments, calling themselves the "Congress of Disillusioned Maquis Fighters," met and voted a resolution: "Let the Government remember that ... we represent the people and we will defend the interests of the people with ferocious tenacity!" Another meeting, scheduled for the "Popes' Palace" at Avignon this week, entitled itself the Etats Généraux-the name of the body whose meeting began the French Revolution. Was it a tocsin...
This advance, by light, fast units, reached northward without running into any substantial trouble. Behind them the main Allied force turned to fan westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...