Word: fusilleur
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...rush the Chamber of Deputies on the opposite bank. Mobile Guards, assembled by the Daladier Government, fired into the crowd: 24 were killed, hundreds injured. Next day, without waiting for a vote from the Chamber, the Premier resigned, a thoroughly discredited, despised politician. The Right nicknamed him Le Fusilleur ("The Rifleman"). The Left accused him of cowardice...
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