Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vatican, of Catholic missions in the Far and Near East. The power of Catholicism in France received its first great blow in 1789 when all Church property became nationalized. From 1801 to 1905, however, relations between the State and Church were governed by the Concordat of Pope Pius VII, which stipulated: 1) that all nationalized Church property be placed at the disposal of the Church...
...Prefecture and then as Prefect, successively, of the Departments of the Aube, Doubs and Nord. After that he joined the Corps Diplomatique. He became French Minister Plenipotentiary to Tunis; Ambassador to Madrid, Constantinople and, in 1898, Ambassador to London, where he lived during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V. His task at London was not simple. The Fashoda incident* was a sore point between France and Britain; but this pearl of ambassadors finally managed to smooth things over, and if not too well, he at least avoided a rupture of peaceful relations. . He was now free...
...Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made...
Elgar was born in 1857, knighted in 1904, received the Order of Merit in 1911 and the degree of Doctor of Music from Yale in 1905. He wrote a fine "Coronation Ode" on the occasion of the accession of Edward VII, and two huge oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius, after a poem by Cardinal Newman, and The Apostles. His symphonies and concertos are very popular with both English and U. S. conductors...
...been truthfully remarked that Republican France adores royalty-its own royalty excepted. King Edward VII was sympathique and un gaillard; the Princes of Wales, who may one day be Edward VIII, is also sympathique. Paris was flattered by his visit, which was taken everywhere to have been "a wise political move." It was hoped that the volume of chilled air between Downing Street in London and the Quai d'Orsay in Paris would be considerably warmed by the Prince's manifest friendship for France...