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...where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates to buy Paul Signac's pointillist Beach Scene, St. Brieuc...
Most of the way through Belgium and down to the Riviera, then through the Basque country and up to Brittany, the leader was Frenchman René Vietto, the favorite. But on the tough St. Brieuc-Caen lap, a countryside which U.S. troops also found tough going three years ago, Vietto tired. Almost half of the entrants had dropped out. Up moved Italian Pierre Brambilla and Breton Jean Robic...
LONDON--American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, escorted by a strong cover of British Spitfires, attacked the enemy airfield a St. Brieuc, on the Brittany coast of France, last yesterday, an Air Ministry communique said today...
Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator...
...parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry and fishermen, warming their hearts by his love of the things they loved...