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...miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
...weeks has been the ugly rumor that sometimes the official tellers rig the count just a little bit, say five or six votes. Nobody else in the Chamber last week liked Félix's suggestion in the least. The frock-coated presiding officer, Monsieur le President Fernand Bouisson, refused to recognize him. When Felix made a dash for the tribune with a briefcase in his hand, President Bouisson, who had adjourned the Chamber for the day, scurried for the door, calling back over his shoulder, "You are out of order, the session stands adjourned...
...cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone else was dead beat, exhausted, pliant...
...Bouisson. To succeed Premier Flandin, President Lebrun turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because...
...office hours Fernand Bouisson indulged in the three hobbies that all Frenchmen admire: he eats, with skill and discrimination; he collects pictures and rare editions; he tells funny stories in dialect. Until the riots of February 1934 he was a faithful if unimpressive member of the Socialist Party. Then he resigned m disgust, has since carefully avoided aligning himself with any political party...