Word: fontainebleau
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...restoration of Rheims Cathedral, palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau...
...French Government officially accepted a recent offer by John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., of $1,000,000 for reconstruction of the roof of Rheims Cathedral, repairs to the fountains of Versailles, general reconditioning of the grounds of Fontainebleau Palace. In thanking Mr. Rockefeller for his munificence, Premier Poincare declared it to be "witness of your unswerving friendship for France and your admiration for her architectural glories which belong, as you so well say, to the artistic patrimony of the whole world...
...Solomon, his ancestor. Once the rotund ex-Shah* of Persia was pointed out to him, but still he did not laugh, he actually cut him dead. French officials showed him everything that would make an ordinary mortal laugh, but black Ras laughed not-not until he was taken to Fontainebleau, when he should have been both impressed and serious. The subject of Ras' amusement was carp-carp swimming peaceably in a pond, and Ras laughed and laughed...
...experiments in examination methods tried by Professors Lowes and Perry, designed to develop thought and original criticism rather than mere memorizing, seem almost trivial when contrasted with the brand new system of education established to years ago by Mr. Gurdjieff, at Fontainebleau and appropriately called an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man." The principles upon which his method is based were acquired by Mr. Gurdjieff and others during thirty years of travel and study among the learned men of Persia, Tibet and India, where the seachers tried to supplement the knowledge of the West with the profound learning...
...Orage represents the Gurdjieff institute, which was founded two years ago at Fontainebleau (near Paris), by the Russian George Ivan Gurdjieff...