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Word: bonnier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From North Africa by way of London last week came the first news about Admiral Jean François Darlan's assassin. He was 20-year-old Bonnier de la Chapelle, a member of the French patriotic youth organization Chantiers de Jeunesse, which aided Allied landings in North Africa but became bitter when Collaborationist Darlan emerged as chief of what many Frenchmen considered a Fascist North African regime. De la Chapelle had no connection with the Comte de Paris and his Monarchist organization. Instead, the Monarchists may have hoped to get power through Darlan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Proud to Die | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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