Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four Frenchmen alighted from a car before the Alsace-Lorraine memorial. They were: General Charles Huntziger, wearing a khaki field uniform; Air General Jean Marie Joseph Bergeret and Admiral Maurice Athanase Le Luc, both in dark blue; onetime Ambassador to Poland Leon Noel, an old pro-totalitarian, neatly dressed in mufti. The French delegates gave the swastika-draped memorial a brief glance, then marched quickly down the avenue, escorted by three German officers. As they passed, the German guard snapped to attention...
...sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist Premier Leon Blum and several French deputies had entered Switzerland...
Refugees whose whereabouts were unknown: French Trade Union Leader Leon Jouhaux and Belgian Walter Schevenels, secretary to the International Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
...capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the front, Paris organized its own resistance under fiery, one-eyed Interior Minister Leon Gambetta. The city held out for four desperate months. Then Bismarck laid down his harsh peace terms to the provisional Government of Adolphe Thiers at Versailles. Radical Parisians, still armed for the siege and fearing a restoration of the monarchy, set up a revolutionary Commune on March 18, 1871. The city...
...famed French Poster Artist A. M. Cassandre (Dubonnet). Instead of seminudes in bathtubs for Cannon towels, Gladys Rockmore Davis sent a demure little girl writing. Peter Helck, who turns out ads for Champion spark plugs, Goodyear tires, refreshed his soul with an antiquated locomotive in a railroad yard. Leon Karp, layout man for N. W. Aver, painted his son in rougher textures than ad clients generally approve (and with more warmth than they usually...