Word: breton
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...Paris bureau's George Abell got an early start in French"from my Breton nurse, who was later murdered by our German coachman two years after he married her." Frank White arrived in the Paris office in 1948 equipped with a combination of college French, Foreign Legion French, and colonial French picked up in Indo-China after the war. "To Parisians," he says, "I sounded like a Saigonese houseboy." M. Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese...
Then Pierre met Eileen Hill, a London typist taking her vacation on the Breton coast of France. Eileen, daughter of a retired policeman, fell hard. Pierre, who was 40, took her nightclubbing in Paris, whirled her from bistro to chalet in his Bugatti racer. She became his mistress...
...Gogh's sitter in this portrait is a kindly Breton named Père Tanguy, who kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color...
...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...