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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...
Back to the U. S. and then back to France in August, Chambrun has a last scene with a LIFE photographer in the Roman amphitheatre under the moon at Nimes. "Two million Germans are occupying our soil today. They are the successors of the Romans, the Arabs, the Vikings, the Spaniards, the Flemish, the British, and many other Germans; but after every other invasion France always succeeds France. She remains herself, like these old stones from Provence which the Romans hauled down from the mountains in their attempt to colonize once for all the land which Caesar captured from Vercingeto...