Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French, Marshall's intimation that the U.S. was at last going to seek "a cure rather than a ... palliative" for Europe's troubles was the best news since the Allies landed in Normandy. It mattered little that le plan Marshall was vague."Today there is something new in the lives of Frenchmen," breathed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol...
...When Ernie Bevin padded across Westminster's central lobby one day last week, M.P.s looked anxiously at each other. Why was he wasting time in London? But Ernie had merely dropped into the House for a quick lunch. That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes...
Perfectly Sane. During the war, Bourin had met Jacqueline ("Kiki") Rousseau* in Germany, where she had done her share of collaborating. For him, it was le grand amour. "Ah, Kiki," he sighed. "It is because of her that I am on trial. They put me in here to get her away from me. For a year she waited, but now she is married...
...Jacquet or the Dutch couple. For two days they were feared lost at sea. At last the word came. Jacquet had won, landing near Ghent, Belgium, after a flight of 430 kilometers (less than half the record distance). As for the Boesmans, they had landed only 50 miles from Le Mans. They hadn't bothered to telegraph, they explained, because they couldn't speak French...
...Electors of Paris in 1789 and received the keys of the Bastille from its conquerors after the prison was stormed on July 14. Like many another French revolutionist, however, Moreau fell out with the Genius of the Terror, Robespierre. He and his family put out to sea from Le Havre on Nov. 9, 1793, just 24 hours before the agents of the guillotine arrived to arrest...