Word: coeurs
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...moneyman is Jacques Coeur, royal financier of Charles VII (the weak Charles of Joan of Arc's day). Joan has long since been burned at the stake in Rouen, but the wicked English still hold the city, and one of Jacques' jobs is to turn them out. Another is to find Charles a new mistress. Along a country road comes golden-haired Valerie Maret, beautiful in her tender innocence and tattered cloak. "By St. Martin of Tours," cries Jacques. "Remarkable! There can be no doubt about it. Yes, my argus-eyed Nicolas, this...
Many of his paintings were unrecognizable versions of picture postcards of photographs. For his last picture he used a postcard from Paris illustrating massive Sacre Coeur church. The result was Parliamentary Buildings (see cut), a childishly formal castle...
...Ainsi se brise un noble coeur. Bonne . nuit, gentil prince, Que le chant de cohortes d'anges te conduise vers le repos...
McNear, who has been bitterly fighting the unions almost continuously since he bought the line in 1926, was at lunch in Peoria's Creve Coeur Club when the shooting broke out. Afterward he insisted that the strikers had fired first; the guards in self-defense. Next day he took...
Last week they caught a hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...