Word: franco-prussian
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During the Franco-Prussian War Manet became a staff officer, served gallantly, carried dispatches under fire at Champigny. Monet went to England...
...really a fairy story, Author Francis' tale is clothed in realism, but wanders into grotesque fancies that lie far from weekday life. Narrator of the story is Catherine, who tells her son this history of the childhood she spent in a Flanders farmhouse, in the years following the Franco-Prussian...
...18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare him, at great length, to Rubens, Titian, and the 16th...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...peasant-narrator is a philosopher with ideas about everything. He tells what he thinks of the an den regime, of Napoleon, of the bourgeois king. Louis Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been...