Word: renault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spark. His courtship was in keeping with his background. One night at a card party he met bright-eyed young Jeanne Renault. They were partners at charlemagne (a four-handed game played with 34 cards), and soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
Stern old Pierre-Ferdinand Renault, Jeanne's father, would let his daughter write to Louis by postcard only. Finally, after a good many cards had gone into the mails, Père Renault checked up on the young man's prospects and then popped the question: "You are corresponding with my daughter. What do you intend?" Louis' mind was already made up. In May 1908, he and Jeanne Renault were married...
...evening after dinner, Père St. Laurent went walking with his youngsters on the Grande Allée or on the nearby Plains of Abraham. Thursday evenings were set aside for the comics, with father reading aloud. He had his own ideas about what was funny. When young Renault came home from school with an old joke about lawyers ("They're like wheels; they have to be greased"), father told him plainly that one does not make jokes about honorable professions...
...conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left the play distinctly Gallic...
...personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France by Remy (Gilbert Renault), the most exciting story of espionage in World...