Word: comprenez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour. Afterward Frenchmen cynically said: "Briand's friends all cheered for him- but many voted for Doumer. Comprenez? The vote of confidence in the Chamber was public, the vote for the President secret. Briand could not hold his 'friends'." This personal factor must be given due weight. But larger reasons why the Man of Peace was defeated are to be found in Germany. Had Adolf Hitler not won over...
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