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Along with Soustelle, De Gaulle sacked Communications Minister Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 50, also for "softness" toward the insurgents. Four other Cabinet ministers were reassigned, including Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat, who was kicked upstairs to the job of Minister Delegate in charge of atomic energy. To replace Guillaumat, De Gaulle called from active duty with the paratroops in Algeria Reserve Lieut. Colonel Pierre Messmer, 43, a career colonial administrator. There was not a man left in the Cabinet with any political strength independent of De Gaulle...
...Ground. With that, things began to fall apart. Once again Debré offered to resign, urged De Gaulle to replace him as Premier with Soustelle, one of the leaders of the 1958 uprising in Algiers. Soustelle himself, War Minister Pierre Guillaumat, Veterans Minister Raymond Triboulet and Communications Minister Bernard Cornut-Gentille. all submitted their resignations later...
Raynaud's biggest market was Africa. At Brazzaville, in French Equatorial Africa, High Commissioner Bernard Cornut-Gentile, engaged in a war against native fetishism, found Raynaud's love potion filling the air around him. High Commissioner Cornut-Gentile wrote to the district attorney at Toulouse: "With the use of this magnetized love perfume we are marking a return to sorcery. This dangerous current must be stopped." The Toulouse district attorney hauled Raynaud to court and charged him with fraud. Raynaud, who is a bachelor himself, stoutly argued that his was "an agreeable perfume which fixes the sentiments...
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