Word: gambetta
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Where is Clemenceau? Where are Gambetta, Jaures, Briand, Poincare? These great figures already seem to belong to a distant past...
Spirit of the Enemy. Back in his house on the Boulevard Gambetta in Hanoi that night, Commander in Chief de Lattre said: "The spirit of the man who leads the enemy is the kind of spirit which means it to be a great battle." As for his own spirit, De Lattre pointed to a huge situation map: "I will use my air. I will use my artillery. I will use my infantry. Perhaps after having tasted it for another day, the enemy will say 'enough.' I am sure we will...
...Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street was thoroughly renamed, the mayor and his friends marched out to the football stadium to nail up a large wooden sign reading "Stade Maurice Thorez," in honor of France's top Communist...
Next day in Paris the Interior Ministry instructed Saint-Junien's postmaster to deliver no mail addressed to the Boulevard Staline. Mayor Pascaud countered by adding the old Boulevard Gambetta signs to the new Boulevard Staline signs, thus giving the street two names. Then, just before the start of the first game of the rugby season, six members of the local team went on strike, refusing to play ball in the stadium. "We didn't come here to play politics," explained Center Forward Jean Colombier. "Le sport est mort a Saint-Junien," sobbed a heartbroken referee...
...there was no stopping Sickles. When Isabella moved her "court" to Paris, Minister-to-Madrid Sickles moved there too, played host at her salon to Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gambetta and the French Monarchists. He decided that France, too, needed a king, and began to intrigue vigorously on behalf of his friend the Comte de Paris, whom he had met as a French observer in the Civil...