Word: soleil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle will be the direct successor to two Presidents of the Fourth Republic, two Emperors named Napoleon, 14 Presidents of the Third Republic (none now living), Vichy's Marshal Petain, and a string of kings ranging in power from the glorious days of Louis XIV, the Roi Soleil, to the hunted 10th century time of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian line, who scarcely dared stir out of Paris for fear of being trounced by the powerful Count of Flanders and the proud Duke of Normandy...
Died. Frank Jay Gould, 78, youngest son of the late buccaneering railroad tycoon, Jay (Black Friday) Gould, who boosted the $10 million inherited from his father to a reported $100 million; at his villa, Soleil d'Or; in Juan-les-Pins, France. Francophile Gould moved to France in 1913 for a "temporary residence" that lasted for 43 years, made a fortune in race horses and real estate, turned the quiet backwater of Juan-les-Pins into a famed international...
...nation, if not always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story of the man who took his first bath...
...Charles Ill's eldest son, Charles Henri, who became the Roi Soleil of the dynasty. Progressive as well as dedicated, he was enthusiastic over a new invention described to him by Drs. Antoine Louis and Joseph Guillotin and on April 25 1792, he tried it out. The Parisian crowds cried, "Bring back the block," but Charles Henri Sanson was well pleased. "Simplicity and absence of noise," he said happily, after the test...