Word: comte
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...wheel of Comt Badoz was made and aged in a German bunker left over from World War II. After the war, a French war veteran bought the tunnel from the French government and holed up in it, finding the atmosphere perfect for making cheese...
...been poking around the basement for about half an hour, trying valiantly to match the numbers I had copied from the card catalogue with those printed on the bindings of the shelved books, when the title "Mad. la Comt. du Barry" caught my eye. I grabbed it on the way to the elevator...
Only slowly had the country comt to accept the war in Europe. But by 1919, America glowed with a patriotic fervor and wanted a permanent system of national defense. The 1914 CRIMSON had denounced the "Jingoistic patriots" who had marched through the streets of Boston. By 1917 though, they had accepted the war as just...
...Madame du Barry's who was appointed one of Louis XV's official architects in 1773, designed a spherical county ranger's house, 50 royal toll houses and observation posts, and a workers city for the state-owned saltworks of the Franche-Comté. The French Revolution intervened before any of his projects were built; but his company towns have long since been translated into reality...
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