Word: cocherel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French statesmen, learning that their offer had been refused, played a shrewd game. One and all calmly deserted Paris for the three-day Bastille Day holiday. Minister of Finance Flandin ran down to join his family at a Brittany beach. Brer Briand filled a can with worms at his Cocherel farm and went fishing. Premier Laval packed his bag and went down to the country. The Press, loyal sounding-board of French politicians, bluntly announced that France had made a generous offer, it had been refused. Let Germany take care of herself...