Word: auriol
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...Auriol made Muret (pop. 4,368) one of the best-run and most progressive towns in southwestern France. He built a municipal hospital, two new parks, a radio station and a special school for training crippled children.When visitors asked him the reason for the town's prosperity, Auriol would explain: "It's Socialism." Other Muret citizens had a more personal explanation: "It's Auriolism...
...against an opposition of 569, voted no to giving plenary powers to Pétain. Because of his stand, he was imprisoned for seven months, then sent home to Muret under house surveillance. When the Germans occupied the southern zone in November 1942, Auriol was marked for arrest again. Just two steps ahead of an SS division, Vincent and his wife slipped away from the house at Muret...
...Viaud, Vincent Auriol spent a year in the Maquis. In October 1943, word came through the underground that he was needed for De Gaulle's consultative assembly at Algiers...
...night, at the village of Villevieux in central France, Vincent Auriol silently crawled in among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...
Between Yesterday & Tomorrow.After two shivering weeks in London (his British clothing points did not stretch to an overcoat), Auriol was flown to Algiers. He was a worried man. Both his wife and their son, Paul, had remained in France, working with the underground...