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...PERRIN DRAPPIER, beadle of Domremy: "Joan the Maid was a good girl, chaste, simple, and modest, all the years of her youth . . . When I did not ring for complin, Joan used to ask me why and scold me . . . She even promised me a present of wool if I would be regular in ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saint Revisited | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

France's High Commissioner for Atomic Energy Francis Perrin revealed that his country is now exploiting four uranium sources, ranging in quality from "poor" to "reasonable." Its first nuclear power plant, at Marcoule, will produce 5,000 kw. of electricity, plus plutonium. In 30 months' time a second, more profitable plant will go to work, with a net production of 20,000 kw. (enough electricity for a city the size of Tallahassee, Fla.)-Moreover, the French have found an "important source" of thorium in Madagascar, are studying nuclear propulsion for ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The European Approach | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

Research, and Francis Perrin, High Commissioner of Atomic Energy. Said they: "The dangers that can result from a multiplicity of atomic-bomb explosions-particularly H-bombs-are real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Unmentionable Subject | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Governor: Richard P. (for Perrin) Graves, 47, a follower of Republican Governor Earl Warren and a registered Republican as recently as Dec. 14. Graves voted for Adlai Stevenson and four times for Franklin Roosevelt. He has switched his party registration four times: he was a Republican from 1928 to 1932, and from 1944 to 1953, a Democrat from 1932 to 1936, and an independent from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Faith That Shifts | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Sten guns and carried machetes. The first grenade, thrown from the kitchen, killed Bartender Tuyen instantly. Vietnamese Cook Nguyen Van Loc played dead, but a green-clad soldier poured boiling water on him, and when he squirmed, shot him. In the hallway other green-clad soldiers shot down the Perrin children, caught little Michel running away, hacked him to death with machetes. They hurled grenades and emptied Sten guns into the crowded dining room. Then they waded into the shambles, machetes swinging. After robbing the dead, they disappeared as quietly as they had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Massacre at Cap | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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