Word: franco-prussian
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...unpleasant fact is that during the Franco-Prussian War Honoré Haudouin was forced to lie quietly under his mother's bed while a Prussian sergeant had his way with her. Convinced that Zèphe Maloret sent the Prussians there, he has hated the family ever since. His well-to-do brother Ferdinand wants to drop the feud because Maloret is important politically. Ferdinand is the kind of man who, on hearing that his favorite son wants to enter the priesthood, says flatly: "You'll get no dessert until you have changed your mind." Hearing the shocking...
...dark days after the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris Commune of 1871, French Banker Gustave Dreyfus, 35, sought out Paris Art Critic Charles Timbal. Taking shrewd advantage of the general despair, Dreyfus coolly offered to buy the collection of Italian Renaissance art works that Timbal had spent 19 years assembling. Timbal sold, thus making Dreyfus overnight the possessor of a small private museum of Renaissance sculpture and painting...
...stock market, the experts have sometimes been caught with their stocks down. Items: John Singer Sargent's watercolors, worth $20,000 in the '205, today can be picked up for around $1,000. Alphonse de Neu-ville's flagwaving scene from the Franco-Prussian war, The. Last Cartridges, whooped up to $40,000 in gold in 1890, was auctioned off six years...
Escoffier's life had a simple line. At 13, he left school for the kitchen of his uncle's restaurant in Nice. He learned the hard way, but fast-uninterrupted even by the Franco-Prussian War, when, as an army chef, he learned how to cook a horse (scald the meat and cool before cooking, to kill the bitter taste). After the war he perfected his style and fatefully met Hotelman Cesar Ritz. At Ritz-managed hotels (Monte Carlo's Grand, London's Savoy and Carlton, Paris' Ritz), Escoffier cooked his way to fame...
...history, says Carson, is the growing preoccupation with the present, fostered largely by the social sciences. "The teaching of history before the first world war has been indicted for . . . not keeping the subject matter up to date. The history student of 1910 ended his study of history with the Franco-Prussian War, or thereabouts ... As a consequence, we are told, the generation in 1914 was badly prepared for the social cataclysm...