Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caulaincourt's memoirs were suppressed by his family after his death in 1827, prepared for publication in 1914, hidden in the wall of a chateau during the German invasion, buried in a bombardment, recovered when the chateau was repaired in 1933, first published in France the same year...
...earth, historical manuscripts lie hidden like nuggets in the coarse ore of family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week went to Versailles for the unveiling of a stone tablet inscribed in gilt letters: "At the close of the World War a citizen of the United States of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., contributed by his magnificent liberalities to the restoration of the chateau and park of Versailles, the palaces of Trianon and their gardens, the Cathedral of Reims and the château of Fontainebleau. In inscribing here the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. the government of the Republic has wished to show the gratitude of the French people...
With one exception House Masters have worked hand in glove with the University's policy. Their efforts to admit the most congenial group possible, to make each House a living unit, something more than a Leverett House or Chateau Lake Louise, are thwarted from the beginning by the insistence upon the so-called "cross-section plan" in all its ramifications...