Word: orl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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National Conference West Division LA 2 0 1.00 62 38 San Fran. 2 0 1.00 50 40 Atlanta 1 1 .500 48 52 New Orl. 1 1 .500 62 35 Baseball...
Returned to France, the marquis remained on the margins of politics until he was 72, when the nation turned to him for leadership after the 1830 rising against Charles X. But Lafayette dithered in restoring order. The Due d'Orléans emerged to become King Louis-Philippe and forced Lafayette to resign as commander of the National Guard. "The sad truth was, no one really disliked Lafayette," says Bernier, "but no one wanted him back." He managed to stay in the spotlight, however, speaking out forcefully for such causes as free public education, independence movements in Greece...
...minor functionary of the court, whose duty it was to prepare the king's bed three months of the year. He intended that his son would turn down the royal sheets after he had gone, but the young man decided to become a lawyer and went to Orléans for training. He eventually concluded that all lawyers are frauds and decided to become a legitimate fraud, which is to say an actor. He changed Poquelin to Moliére and fell in with a theatrical family, the Béjarts. With his mistress, Madeleine Béjart...