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...many inescapable facts. In the dreary industrial city of Lille in Flanders, close to Belgium, Charles de Gaulle was born Nov. 22, 1890. The De Gaulles were petty aristocracy, provincial squires, not well off. Papa taught philosophy. For hulking Charles, the family determined on St. Cyr, the West Point of France. Charles entered low, graduated high-in 1911. As an honor student, he had the privilege of choosing his regiment. He chose the 33rd Infantry, commanded by a Major Pétain...
...Paul Legentilhomme was appointed to head the Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria...
Charles de Gaulle is a French general with an ultraconservative Saint-Cyr background and a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to deal with; H. G. Wells has called him "an artlessly sincere megalomaniac." De Gaullism is something else again. To many & many a Frenchman, especially those inside France, De Gaullism stands for the France that never surrendered, the France that was betrayed by her leaders. General de Gaulle, the individual, derives his strength from the people of France, who are his potent political weapon...
...quick 2 to 0 lead on goals by Billy Harding and Mare Beebe before seven minutes were up. The Varsity played good hockey, but two slips in the short space of six seconds enabled the Cadets to pull up to a tie in the eighteenth minute, when Frenchy Cyr and Hall Beukema pulled a brother act on two rapid tallies...
Thrifty, earthy Alsace parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...