Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles west of Paris, had remained unscathed during the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870, as well as during the first and second World Wars. Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by three extremist groups: Unemployment International, the Revolutionary Worker Group and a military wing of the Breton Liberation Front. French authorities took the Breton claim seriously. A telephone tip turned up a letter from the Breton Republican Army. Signed Youenn ar sorn (Little Salamander in the Breton language, which is related to Welsh), the letter said that the attack had been carried out because "the Breton people are oppressed...
Organized in 1966, the Breton Liberation Front is dedicated to achieving independence for the estimated 1 million Bretons in France who are ethnically and linguistically related to the Celts of ancient Britain. In the past twelve years, Breton militants have attacked 206 symbols of French "imperialism," including the city hall of Rennes in Brittany, state radio and TV centers, a nuclear power plant, and military and police barracks...
When it was all over, the newlyweds successfully escaped from the palace undetected and were whisked away to a honeymoon site that Junot had cleverly kept secret from everyone, including Caroline. And so, as the left-wing French newspaper Le Matin headlined the story, "Caroline Grimaldi, whose father carried 17 titles, will become Mme. Junot. What a victory for democracy!" Or for love...
...such festivals, Newport celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with more than 100 performers in an all-star salute to the history of jazz. From out of the Dixieland past stomped "Kid" Thomas, 82, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Transplanted for an evening from New Orleans' French Quarter, the group played engagingly oldfashioned, banjo-accented favorites and clowned between the numbers...
Soon afterward, that convent was invaded by the chaos of Nazi occupation. The hero of the French underground says little of his hazardous wartime activities. After the fall of France, he takes time for a note of Proustian sensuality: "Every year, the young girls come into flower on the beaches. They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen...