Search Details

Word: nogent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Seven hundred years ago, according to tradition, the King of France-later St. Louis-walked 17 miles from Nogent-le-Roi to help dedicate the great new church in the town of Chartres. Built on a hill above a windy plain, pointing the tiny town beneath it to heaven with its spires, the new church was the seventh to rise upon the sacred spot-sacred to the Druids for its shrine to the mysterious "Virgin Who Shall Bear a Son," sacred later to the Christians as a place of prayer built by Saints Potentian and Albin. Before King Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chartres, 1260-1960 | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Championship | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

| 1 |