Word: berteaux
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...years ago was Premier of France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane swooped down on them and crashed, killing M. Berteaux, wounding...
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