Word: rochefort
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...French officers, astounded, took soundings along the line of breakers for 50 nautical miles. Docking at Rochefort, they reported that the depth of that central stretch of the Bay of Biscay no longer averaged several thousands of metres, but between 34 and 70 metres...
North stand, section 39--C. Ehlermann, A. B. Crichton, G. H. Chase, G. R. Bedinger, C. Wallace, S. Bell. Section 41--L. G. Falkins, C. P. McCarthy, B. D. Greene. Section 43--C. F. Pike, T. A. Lothrop, F. G. Perkins. Section 45--W. S. Hertzog, W. T. Rochefort, J. M. Dorey...
...Democratic Club held a well--attended mass meeting in Lower Massachusetts last night. E. L. Logan 3L. presided. Vacancies, which had occurred since last spring, were filled as follows: Secretary, George Marsh '02; executive committee, M. T. Hall 1L., C. McDonald '01, J. O. Carson '02. W. T. Rochefort '04 was also elected on the committee. The speakers were N. B. Marshall '97, S. Kennedy 2L., M. T. Hall 1L., P. E. Fitzpatrick '02, D. C. Hirsch 1L., S. G. Bristol 1L., and W. L. Collins...
...latest novel by Mrs. Prince "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is hardly as good, considered as a story, as "Christine Rochefort," her first attempt, but as a picture of modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some...
...STRIKING novel, "The Story of Christine Rochefort," by Helen Choate Prince has just appeared. Anarchism is the leading motive in it and the scene is Blois, in France. The story indicates finely the triviality of French provincial life. Through the characters it sets forth the claims and evils of Anarchism with a leaning towards conservatism. It is an interesting story and in view of the restlessness prevading the industrial world may be read to advantage by every...