Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomb for Grandeur? Thus began the Saint-Sylvestre rush. Paris headlines blared: WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY. Down the highroad from the capital poured reporters and would-be Forty-Niners of the Atomic Age. In a Saint-Sylvestre pub simple peasants talked grandly: "Our village will make France powerful again. We, too, will have the bomb. They say you can run trains with this uranium. Cure the sick...
Anyone who claimed a strike became a celebrity. Buxom Edith Lacombe, prettiest demoiselle around, said she had six radioactive hectares. The press crowned her "Miss Uranium." She promised to write a novel about Saint-Sylvestre and uranium...
Security for Zoé? At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Châtillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...
Disillusion dogged the trail of Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-Niners. Farmer Lucien Cantiant's cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing...
...founded the Order of the Annunciades; later she herself took the order's vows and wore its habit under her clothes. After she died in 1505, at the age of 40, many healing miracles were attributed to her, and Roman Catholics have long regarded her as a saint...