Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports say, "there were taxicabs in plenty on the streets,"--perhaps a more real menace to the citizenry than parades themselves, if we remember our fiacres. So peaceful was the day that correspondents did not see fit even to mention the state of health of "Smiling Gaston's" Ministry...
...such an event were so briefly reported in the U. S. Press, neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom...
Friends for many years, Gaston Doumergue married a widow, one Mme. Jeanne Graves, in 1931, twelve days before the end of his term as President of France. An attractive daughter who bore the name of Marthe Graves was a student in the Sorbonne where she met and married Enzo de Bonze, excitable young son of an Italian general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before...
Paralleling the Stavisky-rooted murder of Albert Prince, the great Caillaux-Calmette affair grew from Rochette roots. Because Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro waged a bitter campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, largely for his alleged part in the Rochette scandal, Mme Caillaux walked into Figaro's office and shot Editor Calmette dead...
Several miles away, at Lieusaint, the body of his brother Gaston Rochette was found, a suicide too, shot through the temple...