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John Taylor Arms of Fairfield, Conn., likes to travel abroad. His series on the lacy Gothic cathedrals of France is now worth about $150 per print. He is represented in many a museum, including the British and the Musee de Rouen...
...afternoon at 4.30 o'clock Professor Marcel Aubert, of the Ecole de Chartres at Paris, will give the third of his series of lectures in French on the great cathedrals of France. This talk, to be held in the large lecture room of Fogg Art Museum, will deal with Rouen. Bourges, Le Mans, and Soutances. The lectures are open to the public...
...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record of the ecclesiastical trial at Rouen preserved in the Library of the Chamber of Deputies in Paris...