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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Moulin, alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore a scarf and became known as The Man with the Muffler). Eventually, De Gaulle charged him with coordinating all of France's hopelessly scattered resistance knots. The result was the National Council of Resistance which unified all underground activities. It was at one of the council's meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Le Jour de Gloire (1947) | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...Government, (effective July 1); Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, effective July 1); Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, (effective July 1); Arthur F. Whittem '02, associate professor of Romance Languages, dean of special students, and director of University Extension, (effective September 1); Louis J. A. Mercier, associate professor of French and Education, (effective September 1); Frederick G. White '19, faculty instructor in English and secretary of the Division of Modern Languages, (effective June 30); William J. Cunningham, James J. Hill Professor of Zoology, as curator of marine invertebrates, (effective June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay, McIlwain, Perry, Five Others to Retire This Year | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

...Mercier has done a good deal of magazine editing, outside his work with the French Department which he joined in 1911. From 1927 to 1930 he was associate editor of "The French Review;" since 1935 he has been associate editor of "Education," and he has held the same post since '37 on the "The New Scholastic." His courses deal with French composition and seventeenth century French literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fay, McIlwain, Perry, Five Others to Retire This Year | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

...German artillery batteries had deliberately shattered Louvain University's Library in 1940, the second time in two wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Notes from N | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop and the Quisling | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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