Word: cocherel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the late, great Aristide Briand lived & died a gay, gallant bachelor, all France knew and understood. Last week the Peace Man's will was published. Gallantly it bestows upon Mme Lucie Uro Jourdan his beloved farm at Cocherel in Normandy...
...Jourdan's farm at Cocherel was bought by Briand with his Nobel Peace Prize money (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). The rest of his estate, believed to total le"ss than $4,000, goes to his sister and niece...
...Recently ruptured: the friendship of Aristide Briand and his protege Pierre Laval, the great old man withdrawing to his farm at Cocherel...
Having resigned his office as France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand went for a few days' rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits...
Exiled from Paris by his doctors to avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...