Word: prix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the sufferers of last summer's Blitzkrieg were Mon Talisman and Clairvoyant, famous French thoroughbred race horses. From the time of the Nazi invasion their whereabouts was a mystery. Mon Talisman, a magnificent black stallion, had won six firsts and two seconds in eight starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) and Prix du President de la République (richest French handicap). Clairvoyant, his chestnut son, won five firsts in six starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club and the Grand Prix de Paris; altogether won 1,914,650 francs...
Rose of the Sea, winner of the Prix Femina for 1939, is about a worn-out ship. At less than seven knots she won't steer; at seven, every plate groans and every loose object "strolls." She is a hopeless, unsalable piece of property, and no one knows it better than her owners, hard-boiled Jerome Jardeheu and his noisome Uncle Romain...
...have not been heard from since France fell. But dark, decisive Painter Jean Despujols, longtime Fontainebleau instructor, who spent last winter portrait-painting in Texas, is in the U. S. Artist Despujols is a sound French academic painter who got off to the right start by winning the Grand Prix de Rome. His attractive blonde wife Millicent, a favorite model, is a Minneapolis girl whom he met when she studied the piano at Fontainebleau. Last spring Sculptress Lillie Harper organized her fellow Fontainebleau alumni, borrowed the buildings of Gull Hill School at Orleans, Mass., got Artist Despujols to transfer Fontainebleau...
...Diary of A Country Priest. Les Grands Cimetieres sous la Lime (A Diary of My Times) was an excoriation of Generalissimo Franco's fascism which has been called "the greatest tract in a hundred years." The Star of Satan, first published in 1926, was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His first novel, it is sometimes spoken of as the fountainhead of the revival of idealism in French literature. In manner as well as in substance it dares extremes of intensity which may be guaranteed to unsettle the digestion of any polite rationalist...
...quel prix...