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...Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...
...Rouen, on the Seine, there opened an Exposition Régionale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, giving a complete cross-section of the arts and crafts of France throughout the ages...
...Federation de l'Alliance Francaise, includes every aspect of the country. Bordeaux, Marseilles and Lyons, as representatives of the commercial and industrial life of the nation, along with the University towns of Toulouse, Grenoble, and Strasbourg, the medieval chateaux of the Loire, and the cathedral towns of Rheims, Amiens, Rouen, and Chartres, will form a prominent part of the schedule. Before the return trip to Cherbourg the party will visit the Pyrenees, the French Alps, the Riviera, the redeemed provinces of Alsace-Lorraine and the north coast of Brittany, including Paris and the battle-fields of the Great...
...extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, Aug. 26, 1918, and near Remily, France, Nov. 10, 1918. On Aug. 26, Lieutenant Gilbert made a daylight reconnaisance of the ruins of Tannerie near Fismes, entered Fismes under direct observation and fire of the enemy, and continued his reconnaisance along the Rouen-Rheims road under machine gun fire, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the terrain was favorable for an attack on the Chateau du Diable. On November 10 he voluntarily led a patrol across the river Meuse and located the enemy positions...
...Joan the Woman," a photo-play founded on the life of "that good maid whom Englishmen burned at Rouen," was presented last night for the first time in Boston with Mme. Farrar in the title role. The prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee...