Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Henri Philippot was in service in Syria last year, his wife wrote to him from Paris and said that she had been unfaithful. He forgave her. Upon his return to France she refused to live with him and, since he was a good Catholic, divorce was denied him. Philippot then joined the detective service, was issued a revolver, killed his wife. At his trial he said: " She was my wife and it was my right." The jury agreed with...
...Francisco, was Alma De Bretteville, great-grand-daughter of a French Marquis, Colonel in Louis XVI's Swiss Hundred. A lover of things French, she conceived and carried out the idea of duplicating in marble the French pavilion at the San Francisco Exposition of 1915, a reproduction by Henri Guillaume, French architect, of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paris, which was built in 1786 for the Prince Salm-Salm, from designs by Rousseau (not Jean Jacques). It is a small but charmingly graceful and dignified structure. The city of San Francisco donated the site in Golden Gate...
...York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres...
...General Henri Gouraud, late Commander of the Fourth Army and High Commissioner of Syria (TIME, April 28) now in the United States, was appointed (by the Cabinet Council) Military Governor of Paris in succession to General Berdoulat. He was nominated by M. Maginot, Minister...
Engaged. Baron James Henri de Rothschild, " handsome, young banker," who has been studying in America, to Mile. Claudia Dupont, French debutante. (A $500,000 breach of promise suit instituted by Mile. Marie Porquet against Baron de Rothschild in the New York Supreme Court has been withdrawn...