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Fingers of river fog carry a piercing midnight chill through the narrow, cobbled streets of Blois this November evening. World famous for its 13th century castle, 17th century cathedral, and medieval old town, Blois has long been fixture on the itinerary of the millions of tourists visiting France's Loire...
All of which was bad news for Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who is expected to square off against Gaullist President Jacques Chirac in next year's national elections. Pollsters and pundits had predicted a "pink tide" of leftist victories that would have given Jospin a crucial boost in advance...
The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books. With Gallic condescension, Peter of Blois, for example, wrote home about the wine served by King Henry II of England. It was, sneered Peter, "thick, greasy, stale, flat and smacking...
Besides Allen, Salem State featured a woman player in its second division. Harvard's second trio--Rick Climan, Cass Sunstein, and Don Bales -- fared well against the men, but not against the woman and won, 6-3. Each were expected to lose to Salem's John Blois. But when Crimson...
French police pulled in a cloak-and-dagger suspect, a darkly handsome colonel who commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred...