Word: le
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pressed for details, Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...
...significance struck me however, and for some days after that whenever M. Clémenceau would arrive in the morning, I would say: 'Here comes the "Tiger."' It gradually became a nickname to those of us who loved him, and little by little we always spoke of le patron ('the boss') as Le Tigre...
Quietly and frugally near Brussels live a distinguished Van-Dyke-bearded gentleman, his singularly lovely wife, and a son in the best French tradition of sleek, slightly pale, aristocratic youth. Thousands of Frenchmen call them La Famille Royale and honor as Le Roi de France the gentleman whom the world calls only the Due de Guise. The son, Prince Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe, is hailed as Le Dauphin de France, or Crown Prince. One day last week as the North Star express from Brussels thundered into Paris, there occurred such a demonstration that pop-eyed strangers might have...
...railway platform to a waiting taxicab-a very special cab. With sheepish smiles and shrugs policemen representing the majesty of the French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale et immortelle! Vive le Roi! Vive le Dauphin!" and then with a mighty shout, as a little man rushed from the station, "VIVE DAUDET! VIVE DAUDET...
Without waiting for emergency, President Doumergue called on Weygand last week, appointed him Chief of the French Army General Staff, actual head of the army. The promotion of Weygand, strict disciplinarian, frank militarist, was popular with all but Liberals and Socialists. Wrote the Socialist Le Peuple...