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MME. SARAH, an English novelist; born (Frances Elizabeth Clarke) in Ireland. She married a British naval officer almost immediately on leaving school, and traveled widely. "The Heavenly Twins" made her famous. "Singularly Deluded" and "Ideala"; "Babs the Impossible" (1900); Emotional Moments" (1908); "Adam's Orchard" (1912), are among her other works of fiction. She lectured in the United States in 1901.

GRANDPRÉ, a village of France, in Ardennes, on the Aire, 36 miles S. E. of Mézières. It was at first taken by the Germans but relinquished by them following the battle of the Marne. Some of the fiercest battles of the war with the French troops were fought in the region.

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