Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henri the Which...
There is one thing I would like to correct you on, though. The Comte and Comtesse de Paris have eight children, not six as you stated. They are Isabelle (1932-), Henri (1933-), Helene (1934-), Francois (1935-), Anne (1938-), Diane (1940-), Michel and Jacques (1941-). The last two are twins. He therefore has four sons and four daughters...
...other point also: to monarchists the Comte de Paris is considered Henri VI. The Comte de Chambord, last of the main line of the Bourbon House, is often spoken of as Henri V in history books, encyclopedias and biographies. On the abdication of his grandfather, Charles X, in August 1830 he was proclaimed King Henri V, and several times from 1870 until his death in 1883 he was spoken of in Government circles as Henri V. I think you will find that all but officially Chambord is considered as Henri V of France. It is quite likely that Paris might...
...Against attack the Swiss have aces to play. They would destroy the three great Alpine tunnels, Lotschberg, St. Gotthard and Simplon. Man for man, Switzerland probably has the second best army in Europe today. Its general staff, under sagacious, diminutive, popular General Henri Guisan (the fourth general in Swiss history),* has built in the Alps a kernel of defense which an army thrice the size of the Swiss Army (600,000 men) might need valuable months to crack. The Swiss Army can be mobilized in half an hour...
...loyalties of Frenchmen who want to see their country freed were last week sadly tied in knots. Admiral Jean François Darlan, ex-Vichyite, was in the saddle in North Africa, with full, if only temporary, U.S. approval. General Henri Honoré Giraud, known hater of the Germans, was his subordinate commander. General Charles de Gaulle, the man who refused to admit the French surrender at Compiègne and founded the only recognized organization of free Frenchmen, was somewhere out in the cold, with no voice whatever in the proceedings hailed as the first step toward France...