Word: lisieux
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...Paris, an express train bound for St. Etienne pulled out 15 min. late, bearing scores of vacationing schoolchildren and pilgrims returning to southern France from Lisieux. Nine miles south of the capital, the locomotive leaped off the track, dragging the forward coaches with it. Twenty-five dead and 50 injured were taken from the jumbled mass of wreckage. Railway officials ascribed the wreck to an "error in switching...
Died. Henri ("Père Gaspard") Chèron. 69, longtime government finance expert member of twelve French Cabinets; childhood playmate of St. Therese of Lisieux (the "Little Flower"): of peritonitis; in Lisieux, France. In 1934 he was ejected as Minister of Justice for supposedly bungling the Stavisky scandal investigation...
...dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal...
...theory of a mechanistic art for a mechanical age than has Fernand Léger, but the important fact about his character to remember is that he is a Norman, a farmer's son and a dirt farmer himself when he has the opportunity. The little farm near Lisieux which belonged to his father, he now owns and operates with the proceeds of his painting, distilling a fine applejack and stabling twelve cows in his barns. The machine age always fascinated him because it is so different from the life he knows best. As an art student in Paris he experimented...
Henry Cheron was more than that. He is one of the few men in the world who was an intimate friend of a famed saint. In his native Normandy many years ago Papa Cheron used to play the guitar while the "Little Flower," St. Therese of Lisieux, sang hymns. As Finance Minister in the successive ministries of Poincare, Briand, Tardieu, he helped to keep the franc stabilized after the crucial days of 1926-27, and left with a budget surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. But ending inflation was a simple matter compared with cleaning up l'Affaire Stavisky...