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BRITISH RUSH TO TAKE PART PARIS, May 12. Thousands of self-styled British descendants of William the Conqueror’s barons knights, pud men-at-arms are clamoring to be permitted to take rant in the elaborate feths 'Which are
to take place in the ancient Norman L eity of Falaise (the Conqueror’s birthplace) on July 3 to commemorate the 900th anniversary of his birth. > i j So great is the number of applieaI tions from people in England who claim to trace their ancestry to the Norman barous and their retainers that even the most famous experts in heraldry are. completely puzzled. A procession representing William .
proceeding in state through the streets of his native town will be held amid great pomp, and in the evening the old castle will be brilliantly illuminated. - Similar feres will take place at Havre and Rouen.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16378, 28 June 1927, Page 7
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142PAGEANT OF THE CONQUEROR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16378, 28 June 1927, Page 7
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