Word: midi
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...peasants] could understand." Suddenly there was a rumor: "Here are the brigands! They're coming to burn our forests and cut our wheat! On guard and arms!" All over France the peasants armed themselves and started beating the countryside for brigands who were never found. In the Midi they still talk about I'annado de la paou-the year of the great fear. "One would say that this memory has obliterated all others...
...Burckel, gave them a few hours to pack a suitcase and acquire not more than 2,000 francs in cash, then shoved them across the border. Each day five to seven trains, flying the medieval cross of Lorraine, carried some 6,000 Lorrainers to Lyon, thence south to the Midi. Mostly the evacuees were farmers, welcome to the fallow land of southern France...
From the line of the Loire, which was pierced by German advance columns before defenders could form along it, four French armies retreated southward into the hilly Midi, still firing with the guns they had saved, and in fairly good order...
...prepared to sail for America for a visit to Indian reservations and to the Cheyenne rodeo in July. When he returns, the Club de Lasso may found a dude ranch. so that Parisians may ride hard across the mesas of the Loire Valley or along the buttes of the Midi...
...gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true Gallic gallantry had told her they loved her. Five she finds alive, a priest, a shyster, a hairdresser, an epileptic, and the mayor of a sunny little town in the Midi...