Word: orl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...13th century cathedral of Bourges, the towering, droop-shouldered figure called out the single word, "Algeria!" Then he paused and peered down at the hundreds gathered in the square before him. The crowd had come to cheer Charles de Gaulle's progress on his automobile pilgrimage to Orléans to celebrate the 530th anniversary of the liberation of that city from the English by Joan...
...Joinville's watercolors of the U.S. Civil War were on public view for the first time. The property of his great-grandnephew, the Count of Paris, the paintings were being exhibited, in an odd reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called...
Grey mustache abristle, Scholar Raugel hauled out his proofs. Composer Moulinié, he declared, had never written a mass, much less one for a French king. Moulinié was court composer to Gaston-Jean-Baptiste d'Orléans, Louis XIll's brother and enemy, and was persona non grata at Louis' court. Moreover, trumpets were not used as musical instruments until the 18th century, and Vivat Rex was never sung at the end of a mass; it was shouted three times before the mass began. Raugel had suspected Father Martin's "discovery...