Word: loire
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...minute walk from "Tante Léonie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of the area in Paris' Bois du Bologne that bears the same name. The little lagoons, intricate patterns of shade trees, and the tiny lane lined with hawthorns (whose pink blossoms reminded Proust of his favorite dish, strawberries crushed in cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that...
...Berlin seemed pretty dismal. On the one hand, Washington was assured that Vichy would defend the French Empire "alone, wherever possible." On the other hand, Vichy announced that Germany might get "port facilities and transport privileges" within the scope of the collaboration promised the Nazis at Montoire-sur-le-Loir last year (and never publicly defined). Vichy also allowed its envoy to Paris, Fernand de Brinon, to make the flat statement that Vichy was following Germany's conception of the coming world order rather than that of Great Britain...
...Pierre Barbero (Rhône). 2) Max Dormoy (Allier), a well-known etcher. 3) Armand Dupuis (Oise). 4) Louis Gardiol (Basses Alpes). 5) Alfred La Court (Nord), who holds a responsible position on the French Chamber's Army Committee. 6) F. Ledoux (Ardennes). 7) Robert Mauger (Loire). 8) Jules Mitton (Eure et Loir). 9) T. Romastin (Department of Sarthe...
...began when the hamlet of Bracieux in the department of the Loir-et-Cher honored Mme. Monestes, village midwife, with the title of "Champion Midwife of France." She had supervised with practiced hand the birth of no less than 1,000 squalling, red infants. "Truly," remarked the simple paysans, "the village owes its life to 'Mother' Monestes...