Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the nation, where celebrations had been forbidden except for the Vichy mockery of Laval and Pétain, Frenchmen observed the day. In Paris thousands marched silently past the Unknown Soldier's tomb. In Lyons processions swarmed through the city singing the Marseillaise. In Marseille a crowd of 5,000 denounced Laval, demonstrated outside the military prison, cheered the U.S. Consulate. Police unlimbered their submachine guns, killed at least five. In Vichy 300 people made a tricolor showing before the Third Republic Memorial...
...willow that had long leaned over the tomb of Poet Alfred de Musset in Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery crashed in a windstorm, fell against the tomb, broke the bust of the poet who had loved willows, and shattered the marble tablet bearing his verses that begin: "Mes chers amis, quand je mourrai, Plantez un laule au cimeti...
...people had fled. Only a thin line of tense, motionless Parisians with brimming eyes watched German tanks, guns and troops converge on the Place de l'Etoile. When Nazis clumped around the Arc de Triomphe and past the Eternal Flame sheltered above the Unknown Soldier's tomb, then swung haughtily down the broad Champs-Elysées, France's cup ran over...
Died. Dr. George Andrew Reisner, 74, famed Harvard Egyptologist; in Gizeh, Egypt. He discovered the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres, mother of Cheops, uncovered the first rich evidences of the civilization of the Fourth Dynasty. In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh...
Several beautiful examples of other types of wares complete the collection. Among them are ten pieces from the tombs of the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), including two slender tomb figurines about a foot high...