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...Faded photographs, says Wescott, still exist of Colette as a vaudeville queen-"a black cat in woolly tights with inked-on whiskers," a seductive charmer making a grand entry "with what appears to be a real peacock tail." Colette left the stage to marry a distinguished politician and journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World War I, Mitsou. In 1920 the great Gide breathlessly read Chert...
...College d'Europe is operated in Belgium under the auspices of the Council of Europe, an independent organization directed by Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister...
...Charles Ill's eldest son, Charles Henri, who became the Roi Soleil of the dynasty. Progressive as well as dedicated, he was enthusiastic over a new invention described to him by Drs. Antoine Louis and Joseph Guillotin and on April 25 1792, he tried it out. The Parisian crowds cried, "Bring back the block," but Charles Henri Sanson was well pleased. "Simplicity and absence of noise," he said happily, after the test...
...Widow," was knifing through the necks of its first aristocrats. One morning two years later, Charles lopped off 44 heads, twelve of them in 20 minutes-a record for the time. He later had the honor of demonstrating his technique personally on his old master, Louis XVI. Charles Henri retired heartbroken when his youngest son fell off a scaffold and broke his neck while triumphantly displaying a severed head to the crowd. His eldest son Henri, executioner of Marie Antoinette, served until 1840 and was succeeded by his son Clément-Henri...
...appointed a single Monsieur de Paris to perform the function. In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen. Deibler was succeeded by his son Anatole, who ruled the guillotine with honor until 1939. He was succeeded by his nephew, Jules Henri Desfourneaux...