Word: corsica
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow him to devote himself wholly to his insect friends. At last, in 1879, he was able to buy some arid wasteland, called by the peasants harmas (worthless), at Serignan, a village in Provence...
...lofty way back from a two-day cruise over the Sahara, the Dixmude met a hurricane above Sardinia?so circled back to the African coast. Next day Sardinia and Corsica passed beneath her. At seven the following morning she hovered over Paris, then dropped a wreath on the monument at Moulins to the victims of the dirigible Republique's crash some years ago, swung back to the Riviera and landed in front of her hangar near Marseilles at the dawn of her fifth day of flight...
François Coty, perfume manufacturer, fabulously rich, was elected to the Senate by a narrow majority of six votes. He is Senator for Corsica, island birthplace of Napoleon, south of France. M. Coty is head of the house of Coty, Parisian perfumers, whose exquisite products under alluring names are known to the world and his wife-particularly his wife. Among M. Coty's best known perfumes are: L'Origan, L'Or, La Rose Jaqueminot, Chype...
France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...