Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charlotte, 86, "Empress of Mexico"; at The Chateau Buchont, near Brussels...
...convention made no decisions of far-reaching import. The members, most of them in their 30's, many of them sober, listening to the convention speeches at the Chateau Frontenac, heard...
...Fogg Art Museum will have for one of its ceilings on the main floor a carved oak masterpiece from Dijon, France, dating from the 15th century. This ceiling of massive oak beams is the handwork of French monks of the Renaissance period and was designed for a royal chateau. Agents for the Fogg Museum purchased this art treasure when it was discovered that its size approximated that of one of the ceilings of the new buildings...
...ceiling was removed from the chateau soon after its purchase, and shipped to New York. When the steamship had docked, the problem of transporting the carved sections to Cambridge presented a number of difficulties. Neither the railroads nor steamship lines cared to handle the valuable thirty-six foot sections...
...granite-founded, verdant-wooded Vendee cradled the cub that was to grow into "Tiger" Clemenceau at the Chateau de 1'Aubraie, near Feole. Now on his little four-acre estate, Bels Ebats, in the Vendee, the old "Tiger" waits for Death. The world has been his province, but the Vendee is his home...