Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nephtalie Kahn of Rouen finished another egg last week. Reporters came out from Paris to interview him at his studio "Aux Oeufs Erodes," (at the sign of the embroidered eggs). If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains, M. Kahn is a genius beyond a doubt. Nephtalie Kahn is the only known egg-embroiderer in the world...
...never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms of the city. It contains 5,342 holes, some of them only 1/10 millimeter apart. It took him eight months to embroider it and before the egg was blown, drilled and embroidered Brodeur Kahn performed 256,000 different egg-operations, at the rate...
...latest of Mary's feasts is the Holy Rosary, instituted in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII. In the Middle Ages, when Mary-churches (Chartres, Rheims, Rouen, Paris, Amiens) were built throughout Europe, when monks and nuns were transcribing Mary-legends, when warriors carried banners of the Blessed Virgin, the Rosary-"Our Lady's Psalter"- made its appearance. Simple folk, illiterates or busy ones could substitute 150 Ave Marias or Pater Nosters for the customary recitation of 150 psalms...
...Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois; little Jacques, accidental son of a sleazy, sailor-loving woman; Father Hector, dilettante by nature, missionary by vocation. Once a year the boats from France came in, bringing letters and supplies from home; missionaries and trappers came from the wilderness with tall and terrible tales...
...Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life...