Word: cour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Social Events. The trials were almost social events. Crowds jampacked the Cour d'Assises, in Paris' Palais de Justice, where Marie Antoinette had heard her death sentence pronounced. Among them was many a chic, smartly-gowned woman. Over the sea of heads few could see more than the naked statues looming behind the scarlet-and-ermine-clad judge, or catch more than brief glimpses of the begowned prosecutors, defense counsel and defendants. But all listened in a silence unusual in French courtrooms...
...Messieurs, la Cour." In a long-sleeved red robe with a jabot of lace at the throat and a cloak with ermine neck piece, the Chief Justice of the special tribunal, velvety Pierre Caous, took his seat. Flanking him were four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest...