Foreign News: Rue Rockefeller

Soon a broad avenue at Versailles, along which rumbled once the vast golden coach in which Louis XIV sometimes dined, will be known as "Rue Rockefeller." Members of the Versailles Municipal Council grateful to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for his gift of $1,000,000 (TIME, June 9, 1924) to restore the Chateau of Versailles, decided thus to honor him last week.

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