Word: montauban
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...Morize received the degree of Bachelier es Lettres from the University of France; from the same institution he was awarded the degrees of Lic. es Lettres and Agrege des Lettres in the years 1906 and 1907 respectively. In 1907 he became professor of French Literature at the Lycee of Montauban, and from 1910 to 1913 he held a similar position at the University of Bordeaux...
During the second rainfall 400 soldiers including many burly, black Senegalese, donned gas masks and entered the muddy, stinking valley of the Tarn between Montauban and Moissac. There they buried in quicklime the carcasses of 3,000 horses and cattle. After four days, drenched and nauseated, they had to be relieved...
...Degoutte, of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...