Word: thibault
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Jacques Anatole Thibault was born on the Quai Malaquais, brought up on the Quai Voltaire. "No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais." His father was a royalist, a bookseller, a devout Catholic. The father's comrades in the guard of Charles X used to call him "le père France." The name stuck to him and was inherited by the son who has made it famous...