Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...written a five-volume history of the 16th century saint, who spent years as archbishop of Milan, near Pope John's own town of Sotto il Monte...
...next few years went by, Professors Hall and Ford could be said to have become more knowledgeable.... During the next summer vacation, Ford sent Hall a long letter, saying he had been reading Shaw's Saint Joan. In the epilogue, Shaw had made it clear that the world was pleased enough to have the young lady in legend and in history, but it had no desire to have her or her kind live among them. Ford ended by saying he guessed the saint and the true scholar shared the same fate...
...father was Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed moneyman, who virtually ran France. At 19, Germaine was married off to Sweden's Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador...
...there has been bamboozlement along with the bargains. Student copies of the works of famous painters have been sold to the unwary. And prices for authentic antiques can often be higher in the Flea Market than in the expensive antique shops of the fashionable Faubourg Saint-Honoré-in fact, canny antique dealers work both sides of the street. Sitting in their shop armchairs, slowly polishing their copper casseroles and warming pans, the dealers are well aware of the old truth that the more of a mess surrounds an object, the more a customer thinks he has made a find...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...