Word: cambon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predestined. Geneviève was predestined for her job. She was born into a diplomatic family when "a little man named Loubet" was President of France's shaky third try at a Republic. Her uncle Jules Cambon ("the dominating influence in my life") was France's Ambassador to Washington, Madrid, Berlin. Her uncle, Paul Cambon, was France's famed Ambassador to London who signed the Entente Cordiale. She grew up amid discussions about anti-Semitism, anti-clericalism, anti-militarism, anti-Republicanism. She recalls, "as if it were yesterday," her parents saying: "Things have never been...
Ambassador Jules Cambon took youthful Niece Tabouis to France's embassy in Madrid to see the marriage of Alfonso XIII. There she had a foretaste of the history of the 20th Century. She saw a bomb explode in the wedding procession, spatter blood on the Queen's wedding dress, smash the crown on the royal coach...
Back in Paris, she specialized in Egyptology, learned ancient Egyptian, and, "irritated at the thought that many . . . treasures in my field were withheld from the masses," presently wrote popularized lives of Tutankhamen, Nebuchadnezzar, Solomon. Then Ambassador Jules Cambon took Niece Tabouis to Berlin, where she "was struck by the complete absence of good taste...