Word: lebrun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be Britain's first state banquet since the visit of President Albert Lebrun of France, early in 1939, and the King planned to have everything in royal style. The palace chefs would have the night out; special caterers have been engaged to provide as lavish a feast as possible in austere Britain. Wines, including Krug champagne of the famous 1928 vintage, have been carted over from the royal cellars at Buckingham. Servants will don their prewar liveries of scarlet & gold and blue & gold...
Sobbed Albert Lebrun, 74, last President of the Third Republic: "I cannot understand how [Pétain] allowed himself ... to do such blameworthy things. . . . A warrior of France . . . risen so high to have fallen so low!" (A juryman demanded that the Marshal answer a question-"His honor is at stake!" Quavered the prisoner: "I heard nothing. I don't even know what's going on." Snapped Judge Mongibeaux: "I know perfectly well he hears...
...France Welles experienced a sensation of general expectancy. President Albert Lebrun seemed to have lost his memory. From ex-Premiers Blum and Herriot, Welles derived only the feeling that France's days were numbered. After his visit to Blum, Welles received 3,000 insulting letters from Frenchmen who resented his calling...
Best indication of what many Frenchmen thought of the Laval regime was the circulation of a report that coloness, amiable Albert Lebrun, last President of the Third Republic, had fled to Switzerland...
Reminisced one Manhattan dealer: "I remember sometime after the last war selling a Vigée-Lebrun for $90,000. And in the very worst year of the depression-1933-I resold it for $70,000. When you consider the decline in the value of gilt-edged stocks in that year the $20,000 drop was scarcely anything...