Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...France's colonial archives. One of the ablest early leaders of the French Revolution, he was president of the Electors of Paris in 1789 and received the keys of the Bastille from its conquerors after the prison was stormed on July 14. Like many another French revolutionist, however, Moreau fell out with the Genius of the Terror, Robespierre. He and his family put out to sea from Le Havre on Nov. 9, 1793, just 24 hours before the agents of the guillotine arrived to arrest...
...seamen. Items: the captain rarely reckoned their position, the ship carried no spare sailcloth to repair the rags she sailed by, the logbook covers had to be unraveled for thread to patch the sails, food and liquor were so carelessly stowed that quantities of both were lost. Americans, observed Moreau, "rely on luck more than on anything else in making a voyage...
...emigres found themselves in a swampy, slave-owning country where Negroes were "held in a state of debasement which astounds even the inhabitants of the [French] colonies." While noting that "nowhere does the English language have such sweetness and charm as on the lips of a pretty Virginian," Moreau found nothing pretty in the character of Virginia men, who "cultivated extremely long fingernails, with which to scratch out the eyes of those with whom they fight...
...Among Moreau's observations of American women...