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Word: brun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other cronics are there, still playing cards in Cesar's saloon--Escartefigue, the "retired" tugboat captain, M. Brun, the apothecary who will always be reminded, when he errs, that "he certainly is from Lyons!" They are a welcome sight...

Author: By George A. Leiger, | Title: Cesar | 5/20/1949 | See Source »

...Cover) Into the grey Elysee Palace-home in other historic times of Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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