Word: alet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passions die hard. Two days after the General's plea for tolerance, mobs struck at collaborators. At Alet, in southern France, a crowd harangued by Resistance leaders broke into a jail, seized four men under death sentence, summarily shot them. At Bourges, in central France, another mob lynched a man and a woman' who had been condemned to death, then reprieved by General de Gaulle...
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