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...took only three minutes. At 10:30 a.m., a tiny grey Citroën delivery truck double-parked in front of Clerc's jewelry shop, on the Place du Casino across from Monte Carlo's tourist-draped Hôtel de París. Three men in smocks, mountaineer hoods and submachine guns jumped out; one took station at the door. Inside the store, the smaller hood yanked the telephone wire and smacked an employee while the larger hood snapped a burst of bullets through the window of a display case...
...Clerc clerks stayed up most of the night taking inventory of the stolen jewels - a task that was becoming routine, since this was the fourth time in a decade that the store had been hit. This time, though, the take was more than $2,000,000. That made the Monte Carlo jewel robbery the biggest ever pulled off in Europe. But the thieves would probably clear no more than $300,000 after breaking up the gems and paying commissions to middlemen. In Europe as elsewhere, good fences rarely make good neighbors...
...radio appeal from London, Massu joined the Free French in Africa, was nicked in the calf by an Italian bullet in a desert battle, calmly cauterized the wound himself with a cigarette, fought on across North Africa and into France and Germany as a lieutenant colonel with General Le-clerc's famed 2nd Armored Division...
...prepare himself for his job as principal of the new school, Gallaudet set out to study the methods of Europe. In France, he met deaf Laurent Clerc, a teacher at the Royal School for Deaf-Mutes. Gallaudet persuaded Clerc to come back with him to America as the first member of his new faculty. On the long voyage home, Gallaudet taught Clerc English, and Clerc taught his new colleague more about the deaf...
Spreading Mission. With Clerc's help, Gallaudet ran the school for 13 years. Miming and gesturing and speaking with his hands, he taught six hours a day. He handled all the school's correspondence, greeted all its visitors, befriended every one of his pupils. Gradually, the school's reputation began to grow. President Monroe came to visit; so did such foreign notables as Charles Dickens. Clerc himself gave a special demonstration before the House of Representatives, later went to start the new Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Other Gallaudet-trained teachers, including his sons, also spread...