Word: gouraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General Gouraud. Just at eleven o'clock a cannon boomed, while all the crowd stood for a motionless minute. There were neither speeches nor prayers for Atheist Georges Clémenceau...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...
...necessary," said black-bearded, unibrachial General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to perpetuate the memory of those battles in which the enemy resorted for the first time to a procedure which the inscription upon this monument describes with justice as abominable...
While General Gouraud was discussing abominations in Belgium, a noted French journalist, M. Ernest Judet was disclosing in the Paris press some interesting facts about the first gas attack...