Word: castelnau
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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...
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...
Among the most noteworthy people who lost their seats: Deputy André Tardieu, ex-Minister of Finance de Lasteyrie, ex-Minister of the Interior Manoury, León Daudet (Royalist leader), General de Castelnau, "Saviour of Nancy," Prince Murat, Sadi Lecointe (aeronaut...
...than because of birth, we remember hardly as many as half a dozen. There was von Kluck, for instance, who lost at the Marne, and there are von Buelow in Italy and Mackensen. Do you readily think of any more? Among the French such names as Foch and de Castelnau occur, but when recently the command of the French forces in Italy was assigned, presumably to an officer of merit, the name was entirely...