Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...glory was all too soon dissipated. From the village of Cornimont in the Vosges came news that Mme. Honorine Demange was the midwife of midwives, for she had brought no fewer than 4,000 children into the world. In addition to the national title, the villagers contended that she should be awarded the Legion of Honor...
Then from the town of Nogent-sur-Seine it was heralded that Mme. Chercuitte had assisted nature in the birth of 5,411 pink youngsters. "A record!" contended the proud inhabitants...
With pride they pointed to Mme.' Gomo, who for the past 60 years has eased into the world an average of two babies a week, in all 6,582. Thirty-six years ago, they added, Mme. Gomo was awarded the Prix de Vertu of the French Academy. She is nearing 80 years of age and is soon to retire, they concluded with an air of "what is to happen to our future babies...
Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace...