Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal Foch attended the ceremony of placing the bugle in its case. With him came General Gouraud, now Military Governor of Paris. To them came bugler Corporal Sellier. Upon his chest the one-armed General Gouraud pinned the Croix de Guerre...
...excited gendarme wrenched a Parisian telephone instrument off its hook. "Fleurns, vingt-huit, trente!" he cried?the number of the private residence of Marshal Foch. Soon the gendarme commenced to sputter with vigor and at length...
...crash was the broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?The lapel of his civilian coat likewise rent. Trois?Minor lacerations suffered by Mlle. Godart, by her mother who was riding with her, by Captain Hopital, aide to Marshal Foch...
From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
...ever seen a god on earth or even dared to dream of seeing one! Yet this is just what we have experienced. . . . Foch, the victor, went about Paris in uniform almost unnoticed; when Hindenburg, the vanquished, rode out, millions drunk with adoration were ready to strain their muscles to draw his carriage through the streets...