Word: herve
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused Frédéric Dupont, a Paris city councilor for 13 years, of "intelligence with the enemy" during the occupation. Rightists answered that such an accusation should be heard in a court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre Hervé, Communist intellectual, flung "Vichyite!" at Rightist André Mutter. The wizened but agile editor leaped up and started across the floor with fists doubled. One-armed André Le Trocquer, Socialist ex-Minister of the Interior, and two stiff-shirted, bechained ushers restrained Mutter. Meanwhile, the bedlam grew...
...Suave Count Hervé de Grandsailles, who gave a brilliant dinner party where "congested epiderms . . . empurpled the candelabra," and the guests' faces were "caught in the ferocious meshes of anamorphosis." With "faint but delightful anguish" the Count detected in the "immaculate turgescence" of his cream cheese "the animal femininity of the she-goat...