Word: germains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Princess received the island as a marriage dowry; Yugo-Slavia claimed it under the treaty of Saint Germain. Princess Elizabeth stated that she was no longer a Habsburg, having renounced her rights on the occasion of her marriage; therefore Yugo-Slavia had no right to sequester the property. The case was settled by a payment of $575,000 to the Princess...
Jeanne d'Arc, on horseback, accompanied by an army of archers, halberd-bearers and trumpeters, made her annual triumphant entry into La Place Saint Suplice, Paris. This revived pageant of the middle ages is now an intrinsic part of La Fête de Saint Germain...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...Saint Germain Fair is one of the oldest in the country and was a regular event in the days of Jeanne d'Arc. It was within recent years revived by the Committee of old Paris and the municipal authorities of the Latin Quarter. Ever since the canonization of Jeanne d'Arc, in 1918, the Fair has been more warmly welcomed than ever by the Parisians...
...result of these economies the exchange has improved from about 75,000 to 71,500 crowns to the dollar. The Reparations Commission has agreed to assist the country's rehabilitation by waiving for 20 years all rights to Austrian revenues under the Treaty of St. Germain...