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...beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur Alexander Le Grand of Fécamp chanced on an ancient tome in which Dom Vincelli's formula had been scribbled. The Le Grand family promptly began making Elixir again and now it is a world-wide favorite under the name Benedictine...
...play is an annual affair; last year "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," by Moliere, was given before an audience of 400 in Lowell House...
...proletariat, and cheers greeted a resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed old Senator Joseph Caillaux, many times Finance Minister. "It is, as you say, the duty of every Government to hear both the employers' and the workers' sides," roared M. Caillaux at M. Blum, "but you Monsieur le Président du Conseil, have shown preference for the predominance of a class -the proletariat-which has the right to our solicitude but which is not the only class in the country...
...assassination of Monsieur Bartou in 1934 he believes ruined France's foreign policy, which Bartou aimed to improve by an alliance with Russia and an agreement with Mussolini. France's present bad position he blamed on Pierre Laval, who gave Mussolini a free hand in Ethiopia and frustrated any action of the league. The league was thus reduced to political impotence so that France lost all its support. By letting Mussolini go ahead in Ethiopia, Laval strengthened Fascism immeasurably, Professor Langer said, and also lost the support on England...
...added: "It has also been my privilege to know His Majesty King Edward." And then as the supreme evidence of his ability as a statesman, President Roosevelt turned without warning to Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur le Premier Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis, me touchent projondément et je vous...