Word: malmaison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luxurious and very exclusive is a certain private sanitarium near Malmaison to which the great of France are discreetly taken when they grow not quite bright...
...Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet (1917-20) had just tried desperately to prove himself fit for Malmaison-and failed...
...forgery, even when perpetrated by a Senator of France. The nature of the forged paper was naturally not disclosed by the Bank; but such pressure was applied to M. Klotz that he tendered his resignation as Senator and submitted to arrest, pleading insanity, asking to be sent to Malmaison...
Throughout last week the man who wanted to stay at Malmaison sought to feign madness before a trinity of famed French psychologists, Professors Truelle, Claude and Heuyer. Their verdict: "M. Klotz presents no signs of mental illness. Nothing indicates that he was in an unbalanced condition at the moment when the acts were committed. He is therefore responsible and must render an accounting for these acts...
...luxurious Malmaison but to chill, cheerless Sante Prison went Clemenceau's Klotz. When merciless reporters sought out "Tiger" Clemenceau himself, he shook his shaggy head impatiently and snarled...