Word: bournat
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...guns and flasks of vin ordinaire, landing parties took over the village in less than half an hour. Eleven brass-buttoned, picture-postcard gendarmes shrugged their shoulders, helped round up their superior officers. Most administrative officers were told to stay at their posts, but suave Parisian Baron Gilbert de Bournat, Administrator, was called to account before the flotilla's commandant, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, Commander of the Free French naval forces...
...Bournat had kept the islands alive since France fell, dispensing a $60,000 monthly credit wangled from frozen Vichy funds to feed the one-third of the islands' population on chÓmage (relief). But faithful to Vichy and Marshal Pétain, De Bournat had defied the pro-De Gaulle Societe des Anciens Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds...
...graciously allowed M. de Lort, pro-Vichy manager of St. Pierre's big wireless station, to remain at home with his sick daughter, offered a gift of his own medicinal remedy for the child's bronchial pneumonia. As Vichy's radio station spouted claims that De Bournat had been shot, Muselier granted Madame de Bournat's request to share her husband's cabin aboard the flotilla flagship...
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