Word: rue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper reported that "yesterday a poor soul was arrested in the Rue Le Peletier who, after having seen the exhibition was biting the passers...
...political group of the French Revolution known as the Jacobin Club was not located on the Rue St.-Jacques, nor did it take its name from that street as TIME [July 6] records. The club had as its quarters the former library of the Dominican monks of the Rue St.-Honoré, on the Right Bank...
Since the Dominicans were first established in Paris (1218) in the monastery of St. Jacques, near the Rue St.-Jacques on the Left Bank, the friars were otherwise known as the Jacobins. That name was derisively applied to the political order for having the Dominicans as landlords...
...Penelope raised wondering eyebrows, he confessed: "I can no longer conceal from you that I am a curate ... I have basely deceived you . . . My only excuse is the greatness of my love." At which Penelope sprang from her bed, screaming, "I shall never forgive you! ... I will make you rue the day that you treated a poor girl in this infamous manner. I will make you, and as many as possible of your clerical accomplices, as much of a laughing stock as you have made...
...Assistant professor of the history of civilization at Michigan State College. **The French Revolution's famous Jacobin club (boss: Robespierre) took its name from its address in the Rue St. Jacques...