Word: cocherel
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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...
Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to his farm at Cocherel, in the Eure, where he loves to fish. He has been Prime Minister more often than any other living Frenchman-nine times...
Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents...