Word: rambouillets
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While the King of Spain played polo at San Sebastian; while the King of Britain yachted coolly at Cowes; while the President of Germany saw to the launching of two great steamships before repairing to Bavaria to hunt chamois; while the President of France rested at Rambouillet prior to exerting himself in honor of the visiting U. S. Secretary of State-the President of the U. S. continued casting flies and reeling in trout in the northwest corner of Wisconsin...
President Gaston Doumergue to the "French Summer White House," which is, as every tourist knows, the once royal Chateau de Rambouillet...
...Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...