Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon at 4.30 o'clock Professor Marcel Aubert, of the Ecole de Chartres at Paris, will give the third of his series of lectures in French on the great cathedrals of France. This talk, to be held in the large lecture room of Fogg Art Museum, will deal with Rouen. Bourges, Le Mans, and Soutances. The lectures are open to the public...
...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record of the ecclesiastical trial at Rouen preserved in the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris...
...factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...