Word: juillet
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...height of the collecting boom, dealers advised clients to sell their Rembrandts and buy posters. Paris was so plastered with posters that the National Assembly felt forced to pass the famed "Défense d'afficher loi du 29 juillet 1881." But after World War I, posters fell off sadly in artistic repute and popularity. Nowadays the posters on the walls of Paris are scarcely more remarkable than the signs prohibiting them...
...French Talking Films Committee presents today at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock in the Geographical Institute "Double Crime Sur La Ligne Maginot" and a French Movietone newsreel of "Le Quatorze Juillet...
...Quatorze Juillet" by Rene Clair will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee this Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16 at the Institute of Geographical Exploration on Divinity Avenue. Performances will be given at 2, 6.30 and 8.45 o'clock on Thursday and at 2, 4.15, 6.30, and 8.45 o'clock on Friday. This is the fifth in a series of six pictures which are being given this year...
...French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer French exports and travel to France by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in greater quantities and more often...
Sponsored by exotic novelist M. Maurice de Waleffe were cool culottes de juillet (Breeches of July) much resembling the "shorts" already worn by smart U. S. males-as nether underwear. With the culottes is worn a waspish waisted jacket. Formal evening attire of quite similar cut was presented at Deauville in sheer green or violet silk, topped with a silk hat of matching hue, and completed by a nuvelle chemise-d'habille (new dress shirt)-soft,-collarless, and deeply "V" cut to display virile hirsute chests...
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