Word: chamond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Antoine Pinay, a resolutely ordinary Frenchman, likes to think of France as a large-scale model of Saint-Chamond (pop. 15,000), his industrious little home town (its chief product: shoelaces) near Lyons. As often as he can, Pinay locks his desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling...
...singularly ordinary Frenchman who runs a tannery in Saint-Chamond, the shoelace capital of France, Antoine Pinay celebrated his victory by staying up until 2 a.m. in a middlebrow beer parlor on the Seine's Left Bank. At week's end he left Paris for the French Riviera, intent on getting back his lost nine pounds...
...veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...