Word: auvergnats
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Swart as a Greek, this compact little Auvergnat (son of a village butcher in Auvergne, south-central France) was a Senator of no party, an Independent. The public neither knew that he always wears a white wash tie (cheapest and unfading) nor cared to figure out that his name spells itself backward as well as forward. Addicted to scowling, didactic (he once taught school), possessed of a mellow but unexciting voice, identified with no conspicuous cause or movement, Senator Laval was also too young to be noticeable in France in January 1931. He was only 47 and France likes...
Less than a year later the Auvergnat, diligent in his attendance upon both M. Caillaux and M. Briand, was rewarded by the minor portfolio of Public Works in a Painleve Cabinet which starred Foreign Minister Briand and Finance Minister Caillaux. When Patron Briand shortly came in as Premier he took Protege Laval under his wing, gave him a course in Chamber intrigue as secretary general of the Prime Minister's office, graduated him prematurely in 1926 as Minister of Justice...
Surfeited with such honors Briand wired his courteous but absolute refusal, suggesting Pierre Laval. By this time the Oustric scandal was somewhat cold, the constantly shifting lineup of the Chamber had altered, and sturdy Auvergnat Laval was able not only to form a Cabinet but to smuggle into it as Minister of Agriculture his friend André Tardieu...
...small, swart, darting-eyed Auvergnat was happy last week as his special train thundered across five states toward President Herbert Hoover, who is six tones paler...
...didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works are "Le Chapeau de Paille d'Italie," "La Cagnotte," "Le Misanthrope," "Celimare, le Bien Aime...