Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy for some time that General Weygand aspired to run the French State himself, muttering, "When will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth & Family), two violent nationalists unloved by the Germans. Pierre Laval was now, for the moment at least, Vichy...
French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career...
...himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court. But at the very moment Richelieu got power, he lost it. Louis XIII decided to do a little spanking of his own, banished Mother Marie...
...been kind to the descendants of Henri-Louis Pernod, that Frenchman who in 1797 gave to the world the aperitif known as absinthe. Henri-Louis used the formula of a Dr. Ordinaire, who was celebrated up & down the Alps for cures effected with mountain herbs. One of these herbs was wormwood, an excellent stomachic, which by the time of World War I had also acquired a reputation as an aphrodisiac, thereby helping to enrich the firm of Pernod Fils, leading manufacturer of absinthe. In 1914 the publisher of a small Paris newspaper started a campaign to prohibit absinthe, based...
...debacle and acted in time to save countless Belgian lives. Discredited because it fled at the moment of crisis, the refugee Government of Hubert Pierlot (still in Vichy) prepared its resignation last week, hoped the Nazis would permit its members to return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party, was rated as the Belgian equivalent of Pierre Laval in France. Leon Degrelle, flashy Führer of the Belgian Rexist (fascist) Party, was released from prison by the Nazis and worked hard to gain power...