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...stuffed back and served up sizzling hot on tin plates to be downed between gulps of rich red Chambertin. So delectable is the escargot that the best breeds of him are becoming scarce. To restrict snail-plucking, the Department Council of the Cote d'Or met lately at Dijon, soon found itself embroiled in a hopeless argument over the question of what is a snail...
...desperation the council called in Maitre Jevain, prominent attorney of Dijon. After much thought Maitre Jevain opined as follows: "The Government lists a category of domestic animals under the generic title of horned beasts. Does not the snail conform to that definition...
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, on tour, in a strange country.* In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high...
...Paul Gardner will speak on "The Romanesque Capitals and the Carved Ceiling from Dijon" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum, on Sunday, November 23, at 3.30 o'clock...
...west arcade, is the so-called Great Hall, a full two stories in height, and lighted on the eastern side by three large windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west passage leading to the Great Hall a bust of Professor Charles Eliot Norton...