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Then the prosecutor briefly "summed up the case against Maurras. In L'Action Française he had denounced patriots by name, caused some to be arrested and shot. The judge and four lay consultants deliberated for 90 minutes. Their verdict: Maurras was guilty of treason. His sentence: life imprisonment at hard labor...
Before a Lyons court stood the most famous collaborationist yet brought to trial in France-bearded, brilliant Charles Maurras, political anachronism, polemicist, poet, member of the French Academy, ex-editor of L'Action Française, and a royalist more royalist than France's Pretender, Henri VI (the exiled Henri of Bourbon-Orleans, Count of Paris). The little old man was 76 and stone deaf. All charges and questions had to be given him in writing...
Died. Edouard Bourdet, 58, sharp-nosed French playwright, onetime director of the haughty Comedie Française, De Gaulle's drama and music expert in the Ministry of Education since last November; of a stroke; in Paris. U.S. theatergoers knew him best for La Prisonniere, a play about Lesbianism which opened in Manhattan as The Captive, closed at the suggestion of the police...
...bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece (aunt by marriage of King George II), were war refugees. A few had journeyed from handsome hideaways in Morocco and Brazil. Travel agencies had done a land-office business...
They reacted vigorously. Air Minister Charles Gavan Power, a shrewd Quebec politician and one of the ablest Cabinet Ministers, submitted his resignation at once. Four French-speaking Liberals (Jean-François Pouliot, Wilfrid LaCroix, Charles E. Parent, Maurice Bourget), strode across the floor to join the Opposition. M. LaCroix cried: "Trahison!" (Treason!) at Mr. King as he went...