Word: franco-prussian
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...photographs were taken by Sir Richard Wallace in Paris during the 1871 struggle between the Paris Commune and the army sent against the city by the anti-republican National Assembly government at Versailles at the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war, Sir Richard was an art connoisseur who made a study of the then new art of photography and his pictures of the ruins of Paris were unique. The photographs were in Sir Richard's town house in Paris until acquired by Mr. Spaulding...
Many doctors and scientists dismiss the phenomenon as mere illusion and folklore-perhaps because they cannot explain it. But Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians call the changing ratio "an established fact." It did not occur in the Franco-Prussian War, which lasted only a few months. Nor did it occur in the U.S. in World War I, when only 4% of the population was under arms and only for a short period. But, say the Metropolitan's statisticians, it was the experience of all the principal European countries in World...
...Pupils. German-Japanese military relations began in the year that Tomoyuki Yamashita was born, 1885. The Japanese, when they first opened themselves to the world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
Rousseau's Jungle. An ex-army sergeant who fought with the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico and in the Franco-Prussian War, Henri Rousseau retired at 41 from his job inspecting baggage and decided to devote the rest of his life to becoming a painter. That was in 1885. He had never been near an art school, and his diminutive pension would not stretch far enough to pay for instruction. So he set out, with enormous patience, to teach himself...
...allowed to dawdle unsuccessfully at his early school studies, got his real education from an eccentric botanist who whetted his appetite for writers like Flaubert, Baudelaire, Poe. In Paris he took up architecture, then sculpture, failed at both. A moody young man, he was drafted in the Franco-Prussian War, complained that while his exuberant companions in arms sang and laughed, he himself just got very tired...