Word: marquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison gates opened to admit prisoners returning from work. "Their sentry followed. . . . Four hands were stretched towards me behind my comrades: Marquet held my brief case; Finot held a wallet with my money and papers in it. Moineau and David held nothing but their fingers. . . . They felt rough, warm and kind. At this moment the ball hit the ground, two of the players slipped and fell, and Duclos ran towards Desprez with his fists raised . . . knocked him down brutally." The guards rushed up to intervene. Shedding his prison overcoat, Hélion "shot out" of the gate...
...Britain; cession of the French Fleet to Germany; occupation of free France by the Germans; replacement of Petain by such outright pro-Germans as French Fascist Jacques Doriot, Pierre Etienne Flandin (notorious for cabling Hitler congratulations after Munich), Marcel ("Die for Danzig?") Deat, Super-Cop Adrien Marquet; use of French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from the rear; peace drives; war drives; the kitchen sink...
...stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer [Laval] from Châteldon?" Laval further improved his position by making himself Acting President of the Cabinet, relieving Octogenarian Henri Philippe Pétain of actual contact with the Government except at full Council meetings. Also out of the Cabinet went Adrien Marquet (Interior) and Jean Ybarnégaray (Youth & Family), two violent nationalists unloved by the Germans. Pierre Laval was now, for the moment at least, Vichy's one strong...
Feeling his oats last week, Minister Marquet also had advice for America. "Tell America her time is coming unless she wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time...
...Loyal Attitude." Hoping the Nazis would release food for the hungry millions of rump France, the controlled press urged a "loyal attitude" toward the conquerors, and Spokesman Marquet shouted loudly in the direction of Berlin that it was not in Germany's interest for undernourishment to breed pestilence...