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...Caumariin. At week's end the police had not yet caught up with the Bluebeard of rue Le Sueur. But they thought they knew who he was: Dr. Marcel Petiot, who lived with his wife and son in genteel rue Caumartin, rented the house on rue Le Sueur as a "laboratory." Police said that Petiot had lived a delinquent childhood (letter stealing, perversion), had once been fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently...
...when he attended intellectual gatherings with Paul Gauguin, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Paul Valery and Stephane Mallarme, Gide wore a romantic cape, but always carried a Bible in his pocket. His greatest gaffe was made when as a publisher's reader he turned down the first volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past...
There were 16 knockouts in the weeklong finals, the most professional job by French Seaman Marcel Cerdan. The wel terweight champion of prewar Europe twice floored U.S. Private Joe DiMartino of Bridgeport, Conn, before the damage was halted. Cerdan is already under post war contract with the Hollywood Stadium...
...many of his closest advisers, replace them with stronger men who would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which, of course, can be arranged at any time), Darnand is automatically to become "acting Chief of Government." Mourning somewhere in the shadows is Marshal Pétain (who had written to Laval...
...Pierre paused in his work to test an iron grille before the mouth of a small branch drain. The bars came away in his hand. He crawled in, found his lantern shining across packets of freshly printed bank notes. André thought it wise to summon his companion, Marcel Dumesnil. The men understood at once that they had achieved the impossible, gained unchallenged entry to the burglarproof subterranean vaults of the Banque de France. Swiftly they helped themselves to 25 million francs in 1,000-franc notes...