Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records of la mairie d'Aigues-Vives (Mayor's office in small village in the Department of Ariège) aver that M. Doumergue was christened Pierre-Paul-Henri-Gaston. His family have apparently been Calvinists (Protestants) since the 16th Century, when the Picardian Jean Calvin caused a commotion by publishing his Institutio Christianae religionis...
...Gaston is a bachelor, a fact which caused his sister to remark: "Gaston will be the last of the Doumergues. He never would marry. He always said that our mother and I were enough and that my children were as his; but they don't bear the name of Doumergue, and for such a long, long time there have been Doumergues in this house...
...Aigues-Vives, the villagers call him "Gastounet." They celebrated his election to the Presidency with a bullfight, of which sport M. Gaston is a devotee...
...thereby represents a traditional policy of he Midi (Southern France). For many years he has represented Nimes (Department of the Gard) first as Député and then as Sénateur. In a recent speech to "les enfants du Gard," thanking them for their support, M. Gaston said...
...competition for model airplanes conducted by the French Air Ministry, a 16-year-old boy, Gaston Beaulieux, did well. His wonderful model, with a few strands of twisted rubber driving a tiny propeller, was released from a captive balloon at a height of over 600 feet, went up in regular circles to a height of 1,500 feet and disappeared from view in the direction of Versailles. A search was conducted for the tiny airplane...