Word: lamoignon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear him, at twilight, singing segregation's old unsweet song. But the popularity of a cause rarely cuts any ice with John W. Davis. One of his permanent heroes is Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who (at 71) defied popular opinion by defending Louis XVI before a French revolutionary tribunal. Advocate Malesherbes lost his case, his royal client's neck, and his own, but not his place in legal history; Advocate Davis knows his own standing is equally secure...
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