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Maman v. the Aunts. The problem was a curious mixture of religion and nationality. The orphaned Finaly boys were taken in by Mile. Antoinette Brun, a goodhearted woman, active in Catholic church circles, who ran the Grenoble foundling home. She grew to love them as the "most abandoned" of all her charges. In 1945, she took the first legal steps toward adopting them. Three years later, she had them baptized as Catholics...
...boys' Jewish parents, however, had relatives, and they wanted Robert and Gerald as badly as Mile. Brun did. First, a sister of Dr. Finaly's wrote from New Zealand, asking that the children be sent to her. Then, in 1949, a mandate from the Finaly kin was presented in a French court. It asked that the boys be sent to another aunt, Mme. Hedwige Ressner, now living in Israel...
...told friends he wanted his boys to stay in France. He had them circumcised, but no one knew whether on religious or medical grounds. Nothing was said about their being raised as Jews or Christians. Robert and Gerald, in their turn, said they wanted to stay with "maman"-Mile. Brun. Ultimately, however, the court decided fo Mme. Rossner...
...other cronics are there, still playing cards in Cesar's saloon--Escartefigue, the "retired" tugboat captain, M. Brun, the apothecary who will always be reminded, when he errs, that "he certainly is from Lyons!" They are a welcome sight...
...Cover) Into the grey Elysee Palace-home in other historic times of Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon I, Tsar Alexander I, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried...