Word: roch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honor of France. Marcel Schneider of Paris' highbrow daily Combat, who had already heard the mass in Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist...
...mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit's bakeries were ordered temporarily shut...
...grain, charged them both with involuntary homicide. In Pont-Saint-Esprit, the toll of illness passed 200; four had died, 28 were still on the critical list. France considered itself lucky: all the contaminated grain seemed to have gone into that one bag of flour delivered to Baker Roch Briand...
...from modest in his first adult attempts at composing. At 21, he borrowed 1,200 francs from a friend to have a Berlioz-written Mass performed in Paris' Church of St.-Roch. After his first try for the Prix de Rome (he later won it), his father cut off his allowance in an attempt to force him back to medicine. Berlioz continued to compose, living sometimes only on raisins, salt and bread earned by singing in a Parisian theater, scribbling musical criticisms and giving guitar lessons...