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...Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...
Root of the Family Tree. In Coati-cook, Quebec, death came to 103-year-old Hubert Leclerc, who left 375 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
Religious Nationalist. Father Joseph was baptized François (Leclerc du Tremblay). At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek and Latin fluently, discussed "the deepest problems of metaphysics and religion" with a friend, aged twelve. When François's father died, the boy felt "a haunting sense of the vanity, the transience, the hopeless precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France...
Died. Remy Leclerc, 62, Paris' only bearded traffic cop, to whose post at the busy Porte Saint-Denis devout tourists for years repaired in order to touch his long whiskers for luck; in Paris. A noted painter of old Paris, he once held a one-man show at the Police Salon...
Last week as the Commandant Duboc was warped in at Duala, 2,000 miles southwest of Dakar in the Cameroons, three rows of native troops and French soldiers stood at attention. General Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free Frenchmen, stepped ashore. He kissed Governor General Colonel Leclerc on both cheeks. An officer of the Duala garrison shouted, not exactly in the military tradition: "Here you are at home and there's plenty of pinard" (French soldier's slang for wine). Then a pandemonium of cheering broke...