Word: gion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...
...petite, grey-haired women journalists had a date this week at Paris' Quai d'Orsay. With a glass of champagne and a kiss on each cheek from Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, they would be formally made knights of the Légion d'Honneur. For both Geneviève Tabouis, famed political columnist of France-Libre (circ. 115,000) and Janet Flanner, famed "Genêt" of the New Yorker, the kudos was overdue...
...Orsay while preparing to visit New York, "Genêt" decided to skip what she thought was just a social reception. When she walked in on New Yorker Editor Harold Ross in Manhattan a few days later, he greeted her sourly: "I see you have got the Légion d'Honneur, and I don't think too highly...
...World War II's outbreak, he was captured by the Germans in June 1940, was at once repatriated. Then he became active in Pétain's Legion of War Veterans, organized a special shock corps called SOL (Service d'Ordre de la Légion...
...enraged police finally nabbed four boys in the act of hauling down the flag of Vichy's Légion Française des Anciens Combattants. One escaped, but rejoined his comrades when he learned that they had been caught. The four were grilled for a week for the names of their supposedly adult leaders. But the children kept mum. In the end they were turned over to military authorities after a gendarme refused to handcuff them. ("I cannot do that to loyal Frenchmen...