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Today, including the above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...
...them. On the seventh day they landed at Paris. Chagrined at being too poor to afford her own circummundane expedition, France none the less accorded the Americans an effusive reception-squadronal escorts of planes from Strasbourg on, cheering crowds on the Champs Elysées, cordial officials at Le Bourget airdrome...
These attacks had undoubtedly greatly angered Caillaux; for one day in March, 1914, there appeared at the office of the Figaro Mme. Caillaux, third wife of Joseph, herself a divorcee. Her card was handed to Calmette, who with a gesture of impatience, showed it to Paul Bourget. "What are you going to do?" said the latter. "She is a woman. I must receive her," replied Calmette...
...wealthy American oil men, Arthur and Joseph Steep, of Oil City, Pa., and their pilot, Gabriel Poulain, were killed in a crash near Le Bourget, France-the fatal end of a 30-mile pleasure trip. Poulain achieved many exploits during the War, and on July 9, 1921, won the Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs for flying a distance of 35 feet and rising more than three feet in a man-driven airplane. This was achieved in the " aviette," a combination of bicycle and biplane, which rose after a rapid run on the ground. Poulain's death will...
...Bourget, France, Sergeant Bury in a machine carrying 550 pounds cargo reached an altitude of well over five miles-world's record...