Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifting from the Radical Socialists to the Popular Republicans. Rightists met sharp defeat. Of Paris' 90 councillors, 27 will now be Communists, twelve Socialists and eight Resistance men. Ten years ago the left won only 25 seats. In general, the big cities-Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lyons, Lille, Rouen -followed Paris' leftward lead...
...Corbusier is drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...Government in London listed 25 buildings and monuments as the most important in the cultural heritage of France. Last week in Paris, SHAEF's G-5 monuments section gave a final report on how these 25 masterworks had fared in the war. The bad news: 750-year-old Rouen Cathedral, one of Europe's most ornately beautiful churches, had been "badly damaged . . . but far less than Reims in the last war." Thanks to the care taken by Allied forces -and perhaps to the carelessness or haste of the usually thorough Nazis-all the rest...
...hand. The famed Red Ball truck route across France was out of operation last week, because a more efficient rail web was now in service. While waiting for Antwerp to reach top unloading capacity, the Allies had the Dutch harbor of Flushing. They had also restored Le Havre and Rouen. If there are any more shortages, it will be because of inept estimates or because of short shipments from the home front. As General Eisenhower put it more delicately at a press conference last week, it will be because the enormous expenditure of Allied material is outrunning shipments delivered...
...Worst damage in France is in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen area. Rouen Cathedral is in partial ruin...