Word: ile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris had lost its Ile Saint-Louis and Place des Vosges, or Vienna its Hofburg and its Opera House on the Ringstrasse. For the mellow buildings near the Ponte Vecchio, on either side of the Arno, formed one of the most cherished views in the world. Most of that crowded, encrusted skyline is now gone. "Palace after palace, dating from the 14th to the 16th Century, are heaps of rubble. In the wreckage lie such things as the ancient manuscripts, books and art objects of the Societa Colombaria. . . ."* Total or heavy destruction included...
...heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer...
Author Thurber sought refuge in France just before the downfall. (He made his first mistake by giving "a book on government by M. Léon Blum [former Socialist Premier now imprisoned at Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees] ... to a French steward on the Ile de France, who turned out to be a Royalist.") He also made the mistake of getting a phrase book to use in France. "Each page has a list of English expressions [with] French translations . . . alongside." Author Thurber learned to say: "I have left my glasses (my watch) (a ring) in the lavatory." In moments...
...Grosse Ile, Mich...
...French Indo-China itself open rebellion against Vichy, with 95% of the French colony backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle...