Word: breton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villages of Brittany, there were scores of sick, red-rashed babies. Some, like little François, died. The doctors, casting around for a cause of the illness, advised mothers to stop using this or that medication. But it was pure luck that finally pointed to the cause. Three Breton doctors with a dozen sick babies on their hands noted that all the babies had been treated with Baumol. They reported their suspicions to the ministry of health, which visited the Baumol makers, the respected Daney Laboratory in Bordeaux. Samples of Baumol taken from the factory, when analysed...
Sandy-haired Breton Lieut. Colonel Louis Kergaravat rallied the southern half of his forces on a hill overlooking the road. Spotting the Viet Minh in the old Chinese fort, he called in the artillery. Said Kergaravat later: "They did not take cover. They acted as if they were drunk. We could see their bodies tossed into the air by the explosions of our shells." An hour later, driven off the old fort, the Viet Minh stormed Kergaravat's position. "I couldn't believe my eyes, there were so many of them," said Kergaravat. "It looked like a football...
Intolerance & Anagrams. The ushering began in 1745, when a Paris printer named André François Le Breton hired the impecunious Diderot to work on a modest two-volume encyclopedia. Diderot soon expanded the project, decided to "assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth . . ." Before he was through, he had persuaded some of the best brains in Europe to help...
Gloves for the Host. Clément's downfall carried his family with him. The French government fired all provincial executioners and appointed a single Monsieur de Paris to perform the function. In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen. Deibler was succeeded by his son Anatole, who ruled the guillotine with honor until 1939. He was succeeded by his nephew, Jules Henri Desfourneaux...
...Bellon-Foulke International) is a rueful French comedy relating, with De Maupassant relish, the unequal struggle between a middle-aged roue (Jean Gabin) and an innocent young barmaid (Nicole Courcel), who is the young sister of his mistress. While his mistress attends her father's funeral in a Breton fishing village, Gabin idles about the town, casts a speculative eye on a boat which is for sale and on the barmaid who is not. Both boat and barmaid bring him back to tiny Port-au-Bessein, but he is unable to enjoy either: the boat has a quarrelsome...