Word: garde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sojourn at Lancelot's castle, Joyous Gard, with the dark
...flowering of genius is our epoch, and how poor is America in this respect when compared with us. She counts hardly ten talented writers, Dreiser, Stinclair Lewis, Sherwood. Anderson, Cabell, and several others, Consider out own authors: Maurras, Marsau, Morand, Maurois, Mauriase, Miomandre, Montherland, Magre, Mille, Martin du Gard... There are ten already, and I have only listed those whose names begin with M. We can be proud of being French...
Regretting that he came to his home department attended by a Premier, surrounded by Ministers and followed by a troupe of Generals, President Gaston Doumergue spoke to "les enfants du Gard" on the value of peace at home and abroad...
...simple people of the Department of the Gard (South France) apparently did not understand the speech, but they were glad to see their dear, smiling "Gastonnet" once more and loudly they cheered him. Said Gastonnet to them, alluding to the Alsace-Lorraine religious dispute: "Long experience has taught me that ideas never gain ground by being either spread or defended with violence. Violence adds nothing to their virtue when they have any; and it serves only to hide their appeal, to prevent their diffusion and sometimes to make them highly objectionable. Ideas which have need of violence to attain diffusion...
...politics, he is what may conveniently be termed a moderate radical, and thereby represents a traditional policy of he Midi (Southern France). For many years he has represented Nimes (Department of the Gard) first as Député and then as Sénateur. In a recent speech to "les enfants du Gard," thanking them for their support, M. Gaston said...