Word: edouarde
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...Discovered by French Mathematician Edouard Roche in 1850. For the present earth-moon system. Roche's limit is about 9,700 miles from the earth's center. The limit applies to bodies held together principally by gravitation, not to man-made satellites...
Then Le Corbusier, using his given name, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, was still studying in his home town in the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Soon he went to Paris as an apprentice architect. After several years travel, he settled permanently in Paris in 1917. Five years later he set up his headquarters on the Left Bank in a former Jesuit monastery at 35 Rue de Sevres which he still occupies...
...course; the girls are taught in a special room in a special private session given by the course's regular lecturers. When the girls go to the Louvre or Versailles, they are guided by a curator. They are invited to see the famed family art collections of Baron Edouard de Roth schild and Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos. France's best-known art auctioneer, Maurice Rheims, receives them in his home and talks to them of French period furniture. The Baron Alexis de Redé entertains the girls in his private apartments at the Hotel Lambert (the oldest occupied...
...area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop of the Left Bank." trailed an unknown Gaullist who is not even a proper bohemian...
...taken under the wing of the late Edouard Herriot, mayor of industrial Lyon and afterward Premier of France. Li attended the College de Montargis, 65 miles south of Paris, where he alternated four hours of study a day with four hours' work in the field. Li seemed so immature that his fellow students called him tsao-pao (bundle of straw). He had no particular distaste for work-he was just not very good at it. After Montargis, he briefly held jobs at the Renault and Schneider-Creusot factories...