Word: renaudot
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...school along lime-bordered paths past the back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted...