Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...internal Radical Socialist Party reasons, great and moderate Edouard Herriot ("Edouard I") was succeeded as President of the party this week by harsh and extremist Edouard Daladier ("Edouard II"). Six members of the Laval Cabinet were Radical Socialists. Of these M. Herriot resigned from the Cabinet in which he held the honorary portfolio Minister of State. The other five gloomily read a nonmandatory order of the day from the Executive Committee of the Radical Socialist Party implying that they should also resign from the Cabinet and excoriating M. Laval in complicated verbiage, saying that the Radical Socialist Party is "resolved...
...Seine." On the fateful day a cold Paris drizzle was enough to send all dissident elements into their favorite cafes, blowing on their fingers and puffing with indignation. At the last minute the so-called "Popular Front" of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists opposing the Premier split, Boss Edouard Herriot of the Radical Socialists holding back the bulk of his Radical Socialists, temporarily at least, from the onslaught demanded by Boss Léon Blum of the Socialists. What with the rain and the split, Premier Pierre Laval, astute and earthy, was able to face the Chamber of Deputies with...
Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, the history of religions, archaeology or Madame de Staël. His study in Lyon is a jumble of dusty documents, old pipes, broken spectacles. In it there is also an old-fashioned upright piano, stacks of music which M. Herriot likes to play. Published for the first time in English last week was a Herriot book on Beethoven, the composer who appeals most...
Born in 1832 in Paris, Edouard Manet lived, worked and played with the Impressionists but never completely accepted their theories of painting. He died at the age of 51 of paresis and blood poisoning...
Typesetters are not the only persons confused by Monet and Manet. At the Salon of 1865, before they ever met, elegant Edouard Manet squinted at a couple of seascapes signed with the name Monet and cried: "Who is this Monet who looks as if he had taken my name and happens thus to profit by the noise I make...