Word: roi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milwaukee's Le Roi Co. (portable air compressors and internal-combustion engines for the oil industry...
...Someone said: "How do you feel?" Said Thorez: "Very well, you see." He was helped into a black Delahaye limousine and stretched out on the back seat, his back propped up on pillows. The Delahaye sped off. He could not be found in his house at Choisy-le-Roi, but the car turned up. Said the chauffeur: "He is very tired...
...strictly an assignment for an assistant curator. Workmen tearing down a tile factory in a Paris suburb had come upon some interesting old masonry embedded in the factory wall. Georges Poisson, assistant curator of the Ile de France Museum at Sceaux, traveled over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"-the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
After Louis died in 1774, his hideaway fell on hard times. Louis XVI never used it, and during the French Revolution the royal residences at Choisy-le-Roi were wrecked. For a time, a locksmith occupied the site of the Petit Château; later a tile factory was built on the grounds. No one dreamed that so much as two stones of the old building, with its rich trim and fine, high windows, were left standing...
After that, Jefferson saw Maria almost every day. They shopped together for pictures, saw the Bibliotheque du Roi, visited the galleries. They saw everything, Jefferson happily recorded, from the gardens and statues of Paris to the "rainbows" of the Versailles waterworks and the hills along the Seine...