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During the Versailles Peace Conference days-so the anecdote goes-he was credited with the saving of the life of Clemenceau when Cottin fired at him twice. Starling and the late Dick Jervis (then head of the White House detail) were riding in an open car behind Clemenceau's. . . Cottin stepped from a crowd and fired at Clemenceau. His first shot grazed the head of the aged statesman. Before his second bullet could go-so said witnesses-Starling had put a bullet in his hand, deflecting the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...French Anarchist Emile Cottin improved an opportunity to shoot and wound Premier Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, who died in 1929 with one of the bullets still in his lung. Anarchist Cottin, who was reprieved from losing his head on the guillotine by Victim Clemenceau, was announced in Barcelona to have been killed fighting the Whites last week on the Aragon front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Toilers to Masses | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...attack he was, by sheer force of will, able to greet Dr. Laubry, his specialist, standing on his own feet. Anxiously hovering near was his trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated oil to relieve the congestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...next morning Correspondent Ralph Heinzen passed through the "Death Watch," entered M. Clémenceau's bedroom. He found the old gentleman at his desk again, scratching at his manuscript, still grumbling at patient Sister Theoneste, looking with his cap, his drooping mus-Of Anarchist Emile Cottin Tiger Clémenceau has exclaimed: "The idot! They condemned him to be guillotined. I signed his pardon myself!" tache and slanting eyes more like a venerable Chinese idol than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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