Word: allier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many of his countrymen, the sere old peasant Pierre Talabard nursed a deep and lifelong distrust of all that exists beyond the confines of his 37-acre farm in the Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when...
...Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory, and his big farm at Bellerive-sur-Allier became an important Resistance headquarters. He was one of the founders with Bidault, of the Committee of National Resistance. On Liberation Day in August 1944, he walked beside De Gaulle down the Champs Elysees...