Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures of sailboats off rocky shores. He invariably wears the purple and gold rosette of the National Institute of Arts and Letters; a boutonniere which bears a marked resemblance to France's Palme Academique. His pictures hang in such reputable repositories as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery, Luxembourg...
...Luxembourg Gardens, close by the alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's Guignol has been supplied by a marionettist known as M. Brioché. Recently elderly M. Brioché rang down his little curtain for the last time and died...
...Luxembourg Gardens, once the gardens of sour-faced Marie de' Medici, do not belong to the City of Paris, but to the State. It is the duty of the Senate, which meets in Marie's palace, to decide whether pink or orange dahlias shall be planted in the garden beds, who shall sell gaufres (waffles) and lemonade, and whether or not the renter of toy boats shall be provided with a burglarproof shed.* A month ago, therefore, contestants for the Guignol concession, vacant since M. Brioché's death, were solemnly called before...
...Riding Hood, and some fearsome Calabrian brigands. After the trial the Government provided hot chocolate and cakes for the jury. Senators were comforted with the thought that the combined ages of M. Déscarthis and his young assistants did not total 60. The Guignol problem of the Luxembourg Gardens had probably been solved for another 30 years...
...Seldom has the Parisian Press been so excited about a crime as it was last summer when a hard-hearted criminal stole all the toy boats from the Luxembourg basin...