Word: montfaucon
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...Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom he continually tried to comfort, he vanished from the city and from history...
...tourist from spot to spot along all the fronts where U. S. troops went into action. The- exploits and reverses of each different division are mapped in separate colors. Curt accompanying narratives enable the tourist to follow, or fight over again in memory, the entire Argonne campaign, for example- Montfaucon, Vauquois, Grand Pre, Sommerance, Romagne, Cunel, Nantilleis, Brieulles sur Bar, etc., etc., with 500 pictures selected from the 100,000 on file in Washington and many more in England, France, Belgium, Germany...
...this there is naught that is novel. Old histories of Paris and London tell of the concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered...