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...Edouard Herriot had not died last fall, as Gripsholm repatriates reported. From the underground last week came word that France's aging (72), ailing Elder Statesman was alive, at his home near Lyon...
...Republic. For two decades Edouard Herriot, son of a bourgeois army officer, had been the symbol of all that was benevolent, expansive and enduring in French civilization...
...Parliament. When defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors...
...test came in 1942's late summer. Parliament's rump gathered in Châtelguyon's shabby Hotel Richelieu, heard Cabinet Chief Pierre Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
...Resistance. The rest was silence. Now & then a report crept through. Edouard Herriot, under strict house arrest in his 72nd year, was very old, very tired. Americans interned at Vittel had a glimpse of him when his Vichy gaolers brought him to a villa in the old watering place. Rumor said that he was suffering from an incurable ailment. One day the jailers hustled him on to Nancy, not far from the German frontier. There, some time in the fall of 1943, death came to Edouard Herriot, but not to his words, not to his memory...