Word: adriene
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...have been living on lies," declared Interior Minister Adrien Marquet to his countrymen in announcing the forthcoming trials as part of an extensive domestic moral purge. "The hour of truth has sounded. . . . The rapidity of our catastrophe upset you and then you sought those responsible. It was useless to hunt widely. . . . The day they come to trial, our dead will sit on the prosecutor's bench. In the name of justice, those guilty of such political errors and military ignorance will be punished...
...France," designated himself as Chief of State, 57-year-old Pierre Laval as his successor. In his new twelve-man Cabinet, key posts went to the men who had surrounded him since France sued for peace: Ministry of Defense to General Maxime Weygand, Ministry of Interior to Neo-Socialist Adrien Marquet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Businessman Paul Baudouin...
...Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist Premier Leon Blum and several French deputies had entered Switzerland...
...Government abated by the promise of more zip in armament preparations, Canadians were not long in finding other sources of irritation. Royal Canadian Mounted Police in No-mining, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, cracked down on the Fascist National Unity Party. In a wholesale roundup they seized Führer Adrien Arcand, seven other officials, six truckloads of pamphlets, gold-braided uniforms, membership lists. In court, wispy-mustached Newspaperman Arcand was held without bail for hearing this week...
...Paris' tiny* Galerie Henriette on the fashionable Avenue Matigon, a set of drawings and water colors by Paul Cézanne was exhibited to clinch an argument: that Cézanne, contrary to deep-rooted popular suspicion, knew how to draw. The exhibitor: Adrien Chappuis, owner of one of the best, least-seen collections of Cézanne drawings. Taken largely from notebooks, many of the great painter's slight, spontaneous pencilings were evidence enough that he had regarded drawing as note-taking, not as an art in itself. Exceptional, however, was an early, penciled male nude...