Word: frenchmen
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...seeing. Every great European art period from the Renaissance through the 18th Century is represented. Included are: three Bellinis, a Botticelli, a Fra Filippo Lippi, three Titians, Diirer's Portrait of a Lady, a half-dozen Holbeins and Halses, three Rembrandts, two Vermeers, a scattering of 18th-Century Frenchmen and Britons. Outstanding...
...greatest blame for cooling off between France and America is placed by thinking Frenchmen on Mr. Roosevelt himself. Reports have spread in French Africa of the President's personal vindictiveness against General de Gaulle...
Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...
...legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when, in his absence, a party of drunken Hurons and five half-breed Frenchmen burned his house, tortured his wife and two children to death. Captain Jack's is the best of the four main stories in Bedford Village which Novelist Allen ties together like a garrulous storekeeper wrapping up packages...
Pierre Pucheu himself had the last word. Bitterly he cried: "The majority of Frenchmen followed Pétain as long as they thought that he served France. Are they traitors or third-class patriots? . . . [My conviction will] plant the first stake in a civil war. . . . Whatever happens, vive la France...