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...Rouen, 400 young reservists recalled to duty for service in North Africa mutinied as they were about to be loaded on trucks for shipment to Morocco. They locked their officers in the barracks kitchen, stood off police for 24 hours. Crowds of sympathetic workers, egged on by Communist leaders, hurled stones and even gasoline bombs at the police...
...have so far been built. While migrations from the rural areas have left half-empty schools in the south, those of the north are jammed to overflowing. In Limoges, some lycée students sit three to a table; others have to use their knees as desks. In Rouen, classes meet on stairways, and in Le Mans, students must share a building with the local Garde Républicaine...
Among other music festivals in Europe this summer: One of the newest is Rouen's"Great Hours" (May 30-June11), centering on a famous short-time resident, Joan of Arc, and featuring Honegger's opera-oratorio, Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (TIME, Jan. 12, 1948). Oldest festival of all is England's Three Choirs Festival, this year of Worcester (Sept. 5-10); it began about 1715 and has been going (with time out for wars) ever since. Using some 300 singers from Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, the program is designed to satisfy British love of massed...
Spectacular Fireworks. Dumont's favorite subject was cathedrals, and his favorite cathedral was the magnificent Gothic pile in his home town of Rouen. He painted Rouen Cathedral in all lights, seasons and moods. His cathedrals are done in somber but pleasant colors, applied thickly in the manner of Dumont's more famous fellow sufferer, Vincent Van Gogh (opposite). His scenes of Normandy, Montmartre and Marseille and his still lifes are gayer, more vivacious, and show a love of life again strikingly similar to that evidenced in Van Gogh's brilliantly blobbed canvases. Like Van Gogh, Dumont also...
Disproved. In Rouen, France, Policeman René Collomb put his hand inside the lion's cage at the.zoo to show his little daughter that the lion wasn't a "nasty" beast, got it clawed...