Word: cyr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legion is Our Country." Many times the Legion had fought for honor in a losing cause, for Gambetta at Orleans, for Maximilian in Mexico. Now there were 1,500 Legionnaires in Indo-China ready to die for Strongpoint Isabelle. They were commanded by Colonel André Lalande from St. Cyr Military Academy, veteran of Narvik, El Alamein, Italy and the Vosges. Lalande was a tough customer: his Legionnaires called him "baroudeur," a brawler. Lalande did not wait for the Communists to come, 20 to 1, to get him. At 0115, he ordered the charge...
...full report on a cavalry officers' banquet held that same evening in the Bois de Boulogne. There, in splendid regalia, Marshal Alphonse Juin had made another speech -even more mocking than before. He did not take back a word about EDC. Marshal Juin, a graduate of St. Cyr (where he was a classmate of Charles de Gaulle), was utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international command. "I have always thought what I think now," he said. Like the Gaullists, Juin professed to favor German rearmament in some...
...dull and insipidly metaphorical. Taylor and Ava Gardner, who plays Guinevere, struggle gamely, but neither can reduce the heaviness of the material. Late in the film Queen Guinevere is sent to a nunnery. Miss Gardner shifts through this role with the same dexterity we would expect from Lily St. Cyr. Mel Ferrer, as King Arthur, spends the greater part of the film looking wide-eyed at people and ornaments about the palace. He is so obsequious one cannot help but wonder how he put over this Round Table idea in the first place. So far, Hollywood has proven that...
...Heliodore Cyr, 42, wife of a New Brunswick farmer, gave birth, in Fort Kent, Me., to an 8-lb. girl, her 25th child (18 now living), and her first delivered in a hospital...
...polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...