Word: flammarion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fool," he said. "I have thought about this thing with all the wisdom I have accumulated, and the more I think of it the more I am convinced of its truth. I have discussed it with scientists and writers; some of them I have convinced. My friend Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, was impressed with what I told...
Last week the publishers of the late Camille Flammarion, famed astronomer, announced that ten volumes of his works were yet to be issued. All must be revised, edited; some entirely rewritten. This work, they added, has been undertaken by his widow, Gabrielle...
...like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted to know. Ah, she would give her life for Science. He made her his secretary...
...went to serve as a nurse in the Cherbourg naval hospital. A severe wound forced her to leave the service. She was awarded the silver Medal of Honor. Flammarion made her his partner, collaborator, housekeeper. On Sept. 9, 1919, he married her. Their wedding caused the worthies of Juvissy to whisper the inevitable ribaldries that occur to the vulgar whenever an aging celebrity marries a young girl. It is only recently that the public has learned the part she actually took in his work...
...those great. For 42 years, the little house of Les Jardies has drawn a steady stream of pilgrims to view the heart of the patriot Gambetta. It bears the coat of arms of every town of Alsace-Lorraine. Now Montigny-le-Rio, in the Haute-Marne, birthplace of Flammarion, is by his will to have his heart to put in an urn in the City Hall, and 10,000 francs and the astronomer's bust and portrait as well...