Word: castelnau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Castelnau, celebrated Royalist soldier, chose a bad place to make a pro-Vatican speech when he addressed a Catholic mass meeting, last week, in the Theatre des Nations at Marseilles in the south of France...
...French Embassy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 9) has caused heated controversy between those Catholics who are not Socialists and those who are. The Communists of Marseilles capitalized the dispute for their own violent ends. Armed with stilettos and revolvers, they caused a riot at General Castelnau's meeting, attacked many priests...
Noel Marie Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy...
...religious beliefs, the then Colonel Castelnau was, as always, a devout Catholic, while in politics he was a sincere Royalist; but his Royalism was of a brand that placed France above everything, as his long career under the Third Republic has proved. His Catholicism and his Royalism made him many enemies and he is known throughout France as le capucin botte (the booted Capuchin...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...