Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architectural purists St. Pat's was a somewhat lumpy mixture of the Cologne and Rouen cathedrals, with a touch of Westminster Abbey inside. They pointed out that some of its supports and buttresses, borrowed from European cathedrals, where they were essential parts of the structure, were pasted on to St. Pat's merely for looks. Repairs had exposed brick underpinnings; proved its marble beauty skin-deep...
There tourists were at home abroad. They tried out their high-school French on the traffic cops (who politely answered in English) and on the garage mechanic (who jabbered back happily in French). They found countryside that might be Normandy, cities that recalled Rouen...
...herself accredited as a foreign correspondent, stocked up on baby clothes, practiced pinning a diaper or two on some small relatives, and set sail. In Holland she had her first international labor pains. The adoption laws were much too strict. She went on to Rouen. There she found a baby she wanted, but there were drawbacks. Little Patrick was colored, and anyway his father, a G.I. from Brooklyn, wanted...
...Cannes, after weeks of searching, Ann found a pink, plump, nine-month-old orphan of the Resistance. Within a week she had named him Patrick, like the one in Rouen, and had taken him home...
Casualties (killed): English, 29; French, 10,000.* With victory came the courtly peacemaking at Rouen, and Henry's triumphant courtship of the French Princess Katherine...