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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long years ago he strummed a reverent guitar while hymns were sweetly sung by "The Little Flower" of Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized in Rome as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
Meanwhile Mayor Chéron had made his plodding, Norman way in Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...
...came when Premier & Finance Minister Poincaré, having stabilized the franc for years to come, wished to turn his irksome Finance Ministry over to someone else, someone solid, shrewd, incorruptible. In open Cabinet the Premier turned to M. Chéron: "Dear friend, I think you should be charged with the finances of France...
Spluttered astonished Minister Ch...
...cannot decide, not like this-not all in a moment!" cried flustered Papa Chéron, "I must think." Characteristically he rose, paced the Cabinet room with big steps, tapping thoughtfully on his huge chest...