Word: chambruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquis de La fayette stepped ashore at Georgetown, S. C., to help the U. S. win its War of Independence. Last June, 163 years later-less one day-Lafayette's great-great-great-grandson (and therefore an honorary U. S. citizen before being born), Count René de Chambrun, stepped ashore at LaGuardia Field's marine base to try to speed help from the U. S. to hard-pressed France...
...Chambrun, a captain of French infantry, is a wiry little man of 33, with the late Nick Longworth for an uncle, a profitable knowledge of the law, both French and American, a host of important connections, a taste for driving too fast in an automobile and an inborn capacity for landing out of any catastrophe on his feet. With all these qualifications, he was unable to do his job for France. Ten days after he arrived in the U. S., at the moment when he was pleading his country's case at a luncheon of the Senate Foreign Affairs...
...Rene de Chambrun, on railway trains, in airplanes, in hotel rooms, did the next best thing. He wrote a book about how it all happened. Titled I Saw France Fall, it was published this week. Because he had a first-row seat on the Flanders and Lorraine Fronts for nine months, because he happens to have an extraordinary sense of scene and because his book is the first full-length account of how France's 33rd invasion looked to a front soldier, I Saw France Fall is a document of first importance...
Lieutenant de Chambrun, of St. Cyr and the infantry reserve, got his call on the early morning of Aug. 23 when two policemen came to his Paris apartment and notified him to join his unit. "This time," said the officer, "it means business." His wife José, Pierre Laval's daughter, took him to the Gare de l'Est and business began. Business for René de Chambrun was to be conducted with the 162nd Régiment d'Infanterie de Forteresse, 140 steps down in the Maginot Line's Fort of Rotherberg in Lorraine. Like...
...Pierre Laval) was for the Chamber and the Senate to vote themselves out of existence and empower him to write a new Constitution. This they meekly proceeded to do, with only three dissenters in the Chamber, one in the Senate. The one Senate dissenter was the Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, who holds honorary U. S. citizenship (under a Maryland law) by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de La Fayette, and whose nephew is Pierre Laval...