Word: fontainebleau
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...been the Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
Next came Pierre Boero, Georges Neroni, Pierre Lambert. They had served in Joseph Darnand's Milice, had played minor roles in a major crime-the assassination of Georges Mandel, great Third Republican, bitter foe of fascism, who was kidnapped from a Paris prison, murdered in the Forest of Fontainebleau. They were acquitted of the murder, convicted of aiding the Germans. For Lambert, 20 years; for Boero and Neroni, death...
...turbulent Middle Ages many a Pope was imprisoned or murdered by temporal powers. In 1527 the army of Emperor Charles V jailed Pope Clement VII for seven months in the castle of St. Angelo. In 1809 Emperor Napoleon kidnapped Pius VII, brought him to Fontainebleau, held him in custody until the Empire's fall...
...Fontainebleau last week squads of workmen yanked down statues of Lafayette and John Joseph Pershing. And in Vichy Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally yanked off the veil of diplomatic phrasing in which for months he has swathed the face of French totalitarianism. He broadcast the basic rules of his new French order which he hopes will be profitably wedded to Adolf Hitler's new European order...
...Dramatic Adolf Hitler officially received the French surrender in: 1. The village where Marshal Foch was buried. 2. Railroad car where Foch received German surrender in 1918. 3. Fontainebleau, where Napoleon abdicated in 1814. 4. Versailles, where German Empire began in 1871. 5. Dugout where he was wounded in World...