Word: auriolism
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Astride his huge granite charger, Louis XIV, most unrepublican of monarchs, arrogantly dominates the sloping courtyard outside the Elysée Palace. Under Louis' haughty eye last week, Vincent Auriol's black Delage bumped slowly over the cobblestones. Bugles blared and magnesium flares zigzagged through the gathering gloom...
Half an hour before, 62-year-old Vincent Auriol, as President of the Assembly, had presided over his own election as 13th President of France. The Communists and Socialists together did not have enough votes, but Socialist Auriol had many Radical and M.R.P. friends whose votes pushed him over...
More probable presidential choices: Socialist Vincent Auriol, Radical Edouard Herriot...
...from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren in the corridors shrilled to evacuate the press and public galleries. But, to the obvious relief of President Vincent Auriol, a small army of quickwitted ushers surrounded the menaced speaker and restored order by coaxing Abbas off toward the Communist benches, which greeted him with feeble applause...
...meeting, announced their willingness to form a government. As the nation's largest party, they proposed a coalition Cabinet under their burly Secretary General Maurice Thorez, who spent most of the war years comfortably in Moscow. A more likely candidate of the Left coalition was oracular Socialist Vincent Auriol, foreign-affairs expert and a middleman in his party's divided house...