Word: eclair
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus approved, the Cardinal Secretary went to Paris last week, and a reporter of L'Eclair found him surprisingly willing to talk. Not once could the reporter bring the name of Mussolini to the Cardinal's lips, but step by step through the interview the third person masculine referred invariably to the Dictator beyond the Alps. Summarizing recent history, the Cardinal said: "He has replaced the crucifix in the schools; he has returned the buildings which belonged to the Jesuits...
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Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
...French were furious. L'Eclair, Paris journal, fumed against the "Boche brain which could invent such a lie," defied the Germans to prove the story...