Word: andr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifting Socialist André Le Trocquer from the Committee's Commission for War and Air to a new Commission for Liberated Territories, which will establish headquarters in London, seek to administer France in the wake of Allied invasion...
...Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...
They Did Not Pass. Paul André Triquet's great-grandfather fought in the Crimean War for Napoleon III; his grandfather fought the Germans who invaded his native France in 1870; his father, who emigrated to Canada, returned in 1914 to fight the Germans again. It seemed only natural for Paul at 19 to enlist as a private in the Royal 22nd Regiment, the "Van Doos...
Last week Paul André Triquet lay on a hospital bed in Italy. He had not been wounded in battle but while instructing at a battle school. He had also become a national hero. "For determined leadership and example," Major Triquet had been awarded the Victoria Cross. He was the fourth Canadian to be awarded the coveted ribbon in World War II, the first living French Canadian...
Dumesnil hid his share. André Pierre tried changing a note or two. Police were informed of strange serial numbers, arrested both men. Hard-pressed Frenchmen guffawed among themselves when they learned that the bank had known nothing of its loss...