Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WILLIAM, otherwise the Bastard of Failaise, sat in his ducal castle at Rouen and meditated on the weakness and perfidy of kings. He was fully as strong as his Capetian overlord on the East, and he had put that monarch firmly in his place on several occasions, taking bits of disputed territory to prove it. But fendal law was still in the eleventh century: William never thought of aspiring to the crown of France. His ambition lay in another direction...
...showing the historical and geographical curiosity of the century ushered in by Napoleon's conquests. Bonington, the English youth who spent the last half of the twenty-seven full years of his life in France, raised lithography to a new height, well illustrated by the "Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen." Gericault's studies of horses form striking foils to the more dramatic lithographs of Delacroix, also represented by two water-colors...
Given to Argenteuil by Charlemagne a thousand years ago, admitted as a genuine relic by Archbishop Hugh of Rouen in 1156, the Holy Tunic has been zealously guarded down the centuries. Credited with hundreds of miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a portion of it sent to the University of Fribourg healed a youth injured in a football game. When its golden reliquary was opened few years later, moths flew out after eating holes in the garment...
From Senlis, from Orléans, from Rouen, Chartres and Lyons they came, 8,000 grey-blue soldiers clumping into a Paris that, for the day, was placidly peaceful. Throughout the city headquarters were set up, rolling kitchens were fired and posts mounted. Workmen were out at dawn scattering clean yellow sand in the Place de la Concorde, the Place de la République and along the boulevards near the Chamber of Deputies to keep soldiers' horses from slipping. An emergency Cabinet headed by six onetime Premiers of France had taken charge. There had been bloody storms before...
...Rouen, France, June...