Word: chateauful
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...late-shift workers. Londoners picnicked on Hampstead Heath; a short distance from town ten carnival shows were running at once, complete with carousels and gypsy sideshows. Frenchmen made for the country too. Pierre Chander, who works at the War Ministry, took his family to Fontainebleau. They visited the chateau and went for walks in the forest. Back at work with a sunburned nose, Chander said: "Ça me donne du courage. Now I can put in a good week's work...
Enraged and embittered, the Patinos left Bolivia in 1924, from that time on directed the empire from their Paris mansion, Nice chateau, villa at Biarritz or their yacht...
Imprisoned again with 30 others in the Chateau d'lf, he seduced the canteen attendant, was moved to another prison, finally fled over the frontier (leaving still another mistress behind him). His sister and her lover, accompanied by a girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...
...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...
Died. Lieut. General Robert Lee Bullard, 86, World War I commander of the Second U.S. army, whose aggressive tactics at Chateau-Thierry, the second battle of the Marne, and the Argonne earned him the nickname of "CounterAttack Bullard" on Governors Island, N.Y. Alabama born Bullard once shocked fellow Southerners by announcing: "I would rather have been named for General Sherman than for General Lee. Sherman knew how to fight...