Word: orl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
Joan of Arc was put to death on a pile of burning fagots. Gilles de Rais, the French nobleman who fought at her side at Orléans, met a somewhat different end. He turned out to be a fagot who dismembered and burned a pile of little boys-800 of them, by the best estimates of the time. In its outlines, this historical novel is undoubtedly Sade-but-true. More debatable is the book's claim that Marshal de Rais was not entirely a monster, but "the magnified and distorted image of everyman." Everyman? De Rais, whose atrocities...
...usermann's parents' house proved such a conversation piece locally that he was soon inundated with orders for more, including seven concrete egg houses and a model home commissioned by the French woman's magazine, Marie-Claire, for the current six-month-long exposition in Orl...
...twelve-hour Sebring endurance race; of massive brain damage five days after his Mark II aquaplaned across the wet track at 120 m.p.h., flipped end over end and crashed into a sand bank during a practice run for the 24 hours of Le Mans this June; in Orléans, France...
...swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...