Word: benoit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claude Farrere, racy French novelist (Les Civiliises), bowling along in an automobile with his friend, Author Pierre Benoit (Les Suppliantes), was injured in a crash near Toulouse, France...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...
...found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...
...will soon be dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...
...Church, Cohasset, Mass. Kam Lefévere is carilloneur. For some two years he has given concerts of carillon music on Sunday afternoons when the weather is warm. In place of a worthy patriotic air, Mr. Lefévere has a way of ending with a fantasia by Benoit, a carillon arrangement of Schubert or Rubenstein or his own graceful "Preludium...