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...French Administrator Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, laid out the site of New Orleans "in the form of a parallelogram, 4,000 feet long by 1,800 feet deep" and set a crew of convicts to work building the city. The area he marked off now constitutes the Vieux Carré, the old French Quarter of New Orleans, some 165 acres of picturesque wickedness, romantic associations, narrow streets and old Spanish dwellings, bounded by the Mississippi River, and Canal, Esplanade and Rampart Streets. It has been successively favored as a home for convicts, aristocrats, thieves and prostitutes, Italian...
Back on the platinum standard again, Jean Harlow, as an American chorine stranded in Europe for the World War, turns in a performance that should bring many old devotees of the once blondest siren back into the fold...
Late in November in the year 1825, a child was born in Paris who was to be one of the greatest neurologists of the 19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear...
...Jean Martin Charcot in 1867 a son was born who was christened Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste. The boy grew up without thought of any other vocation than his father's, in which he quickly showed marked ability. In 1896. after practicing medicine for only six years, he became head of the clinics at the University of Paris. This was unheard of in a country which venerates age in scholarship and government. Dr. Charcot regretted that his father had not lived to see this honor...
...July 1935, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot took the Pourqnoi Pas once more out of St. Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...