Word: franco-prussian
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...Franco-Prussian War," Professor Fay, Harvard...
...young lieutenant named Muff at (Phillips Holmes), whose older brother (Lionel Atwill), a pompous colonel, considers her a "gilded fly." But after he has sent his young brother to Algiers to cool off, Colonel Muffat starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point of the story is that Nana, although troublesome...
Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
...years French art has been coming this way. Now it is going back. It was the same after the Franco-Prussian War and the French Revolution except that then wealthy Englishmen bought it up. We have since taken it back at a profit both ways. I consider French art excellent propaganda. We send it .out, making money in the process, and then it always comes back...