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...then Germna territory of the Saar and came to France in 1836. More particularly Brothers Eugene and Adolph came to Le Crcesot (literally "The Hollow" or "The Crucible") where to the south of the Burgundy wine district a small foundry had been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years for their first major...
...forgotten bales and bundles they came across three small dusty wooden boxes which they lugged out to the light to open. Inside each box the Jesuits beheld 40 or 50 brown bits of bones. In the same basement of Healy Building were documents telling how in 1843 Pope Gregory XVI sent Georgetown University the holy bones of three Roman Catholic martyrs. Georgetown had tucked the boxes away without opening them. Out in the daylight for the first time in 91 years the bones-teeth, bits of jaw, tibia, femur-were placed in a handsome new relic room in St. William...
...Spanish History of XVI and XVII Centuries," Professor Post, Fogg Museum Small Room...
...Mallinckrodt MB9 Mathematics 4 Sever 35 Mineralogy 2 Geol. Mus. 12 Music 6 Music Bldg. Philosophy 8 Emerson 211 Physics 30 Sever 5 Semitic 5a Andover C Semitic 14 Sever 6 Sociology 12 Emerson A Zoology 5 Sever 20 2 P.M. Philosophy A Memorial Hall THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 (XVI) Economics 7b Sever 5 Economics 43 Sever 2 Engin. Sciences 3b Robinson Annex Fine Arts 8a Fogg Small Rm. Government 8 Sever 36 Government 23 Sever 17 History 66 Sever 17 Latin 3 hf. Sever 13 Latin 7 hf. Sever 17 Physiology 4 Sever 1 Sociology 16 Sever...
...original Paris Crédit Municipal was founded by King Louis XVI, as a noble experiment to see whether the rapacity of private lenders could be checked by the State. It could. Under the august patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace...