Word: chauvel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia...
...reported terms-abandonment of Northern Viet Nam and the Red River Delta, in return for a neutralized Laos and Cambodia-exactly accorded with the bargain Britain had long privately advocated. Eden put off his departure to confer through Saturday afternoon with Molotov, Chou and France's Jean Chauvel, hammering out an agreement that representatives of "the two sides" would meet immediately in Geneva or "on the spot" to discuss "the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces and of foreign military personnel" from both Laos and Cambodia, and report back to the conference in 21 days...
...reproduce destroyed sections as faithfully as possible, Chauvel had sent workmen to Chartres and Reims to learn what other church builders knew about medieval construction techniques. Scholars were commissioned to search out old books and manuscripts containing hints on gothic church building...
With his newly acquired knowledge Chauvel set up school in Rouen, taught his workmen to use old-style hand tools instead of mechanical saws in stonecutting. Thus, the new stone has the finely granulated look of the original. "This kind of surface softly reflects the light," said a Rouen expert, "whereas, with modern saws, we would have got a flat, shiny, modern surface." In similar spirit, the new timbers have been shaped with small axes, to give a delicately chiseled surface...
With ten more years of reconstruction work still ahead of them, Chauvel and his workmen have developed a deep respect for the men of the Middle Ages who originally built the church. Said a foreman last week: "Today we may be able to repair their work, but I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to build a cathedral from the ground...