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General Naulin is 55 years old and was educated at Saint-Cyr, school founded by Mme. de Maintenant, wife of Louis XIV, and now the West Point of France. As lieutenant and captain, he saw service in Morocco under the famous General d'Amade. At the beginning of the War, he, was a major and was rapidly promoted to be General for his brilliant work. At the last German offensive on Rheims, he had under his command the U. S. "Rainbow Division" (42nd) as well as the 2nd and 36th U. S. Divisions, whom he commended in army orders...
...Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy of St. Cyr...
HARVARD SECONDS Sr. JOHN'S Stiger. s.s. 2b., Smith Gibb. 1b. l.f., Cyr Heageney, l.f. s.s., Cusick Lucas, r.f. r.f., Tomasello Kerr, 1b. 1b., Darcy Fulton, 3b. c.f., Cashman Thomas, c.f. 3b., Phillip Hoffman, c. c., Darcy Anastas, p. p., Baker, Sullivan...
Colonel Azan was born in 1874 and received his military education at St. Cyr. In the second Algerian campaign he was a second lieutenant of Zouaves. He has served in the general headquarters of the Ministry of war, and on historical missions in Germany and Spain in 1905 and 1906. From 1906 to 1909 he was in Morocco as captain under Generals Liautey and d'Amade...
Racine wrote the tragedy of Athalie for the demoiselles de St. Cyr. Under the direction of Madame de Maintenon, the girls of this school had already produced a play of Corneille. After this Madame de Maintenon requested Racine to write a play for the school. He complied, but his "Andromaque" was not quite suitable for her purposes, and soon afterwards he wrote "Esther," a tragedy drawn from Holy Writ. Inspired by his biblical material Racine wrote "Athalie" his masterpiece, but owing to the intervention of the spiritual advision of the school, the first performances of the play were stripped...