Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peppery little Jean Chiappe, longtime Prefect of Police, was one of the most excited men in all Paris last week. Within seven days he had challenged an enemy to a duel, staged a potent political comeback and got himself elected President of the Municipal Council of Paris, a post equivalent to mayor...
...price of their support of the luckless Daladier government. Prefect Chiappe was forced to resign. To keep him quiet Premier Daladier reached deep into his plum bag for one of the juiciest of all French administrative posts-the Governorship of Morocco. Still gambling on his popularity in Paris, Jean Chiappe turned the offer down...
...cocktail bar. Then at last he was ready to step out again. The Presidency of the Municipal Council is a one-year job that attracts little public attention but wields great influence with the National Government. A previous President of the Municipal Council was Socialist Pierre Godin. He and Jean Chiappe had been intimate friends for years. Their friendship did not break up when the scandals of the Stavisky case and the February riots forced the resignation of Jean Chiappe, but when a Chiappe candidate beat out Pierre Godin for his seat on the Council, that 60-year-old politician...
...Jean Chiappe promptly challenged Pierre Godin to a duel.* Attempting to weasel, M. Godin at first refused to accept the challenge on the ground that M. Chiappe had "forfeited his dueling rights" by refusing to fight a Corsican editor in 1933. Later he accepted...
...first shot both men missed. Stiffly they waited while the pistols were reloaded. At the second shot M. Godin crumpled up, pinked in the hip. Jean Chiappe turned on his heel, stalked off to his car without shaking hands. Honor was satisfied, but the adversaries were not reconciled...