Word: enghien
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...less than 24 hours Florimond Grammens had resumed his painting, soon after led his "school" of gay students in an Anschluss raid into the predominantly French town of Enghien, intending to paint it Flemish. Equally zealous French-speaking students drove them...
...that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien, "one of the few instances of individual terrorism that Napoleon appears to have allowed himself." In this killing Napoleon behaved like a modern gangster taking a rival for a ride; arranged the affair so that responsibility fell on the aristocratic Caulaincourt, who was at tlk, point of taking his life...
...October 1926 someone with a very long ladder broke into the State-owned Chateau of Chantilly, and stole the famous Grand Condé Rose diamond that Louis XIV had given the due d'Enghien after the latter's victory over the Spanish Army at Rocroy in 1643. Chiappe took charge of the investigation but had little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe...
...Gaiete Montparnasse and Menus Plaisirs. For the fifteen years in which these theatres have been in vogue many popu ar plays have been represented there, such as "L'Evasion," by Alexander Villiers; "Le Pain du Peche," by T. Aubanel; "Rolande," by J de Gramont; "Le Mort du Due d'Enghien," by Leon Hennique; "Tante Leontine," by Boniface and Rodin; "Le Maitre," by Jean Jullien. Plays by Ibsen and other foreign writers are also sometimes represented...
...Ropes prize of one hundred and fifty dollars for the best essay on "The Execution of the Duc d' Enghien," open to students of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded to Sydney Bradshaw...