Word: cateau
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...sisters Cateau and Magdelon de la Louppe were born in the early 16305. They were among the most beautiful women in Europe. Starting as down-at-heel petty noblewomen, both made brilliant marriages, both took many lovers, both were involved in flamboyant scandals, both faded into lonely piety, and both lived, voraciously, to be 80. Aside from these parallels, their lives differed as sharply as their characters...
...French and British learned last week that the only sure way to stop Germany's durable tank corps of today is by massed field-gun fire at point-blank range. Batteries of the famed French 753 were trundled into position last week at Rethel, Guise, Landrecies and Le Cateau. French tanks tried to break up the advancing formations of the German tanks. Sometimes encounters became individual, each tank trying for a glancing blow to tip its opponent over. Dust, smoke and debris obscured the milling masses. Supporting airplanes had to refrain from dropping bombs lest they destroy their...
...exhibition of modern paintings anywhere in the world might look very different had Henri Matisse, at 22, taken his degree and become a lawyer, as he intended to do when he reached Paris from le Cateau. Possibly, since Matisse has never exhibited any stubborn allegiance to the errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush...
...Cateau, France, Henri Mailer, the Mayor, posted a bulletin on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville...