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Wounds, Jail, Escape. De Lattre made his early entrances with characteristic élan. Born like Clemenceau in the Vendée village of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, the village where De Lattre's 97-year-old father has been mayor for 40 years, De Lattre startled the neighbors early in life by leading cavalry charges across the garden astride his father's great Dane. As a young lieutenant of dragoons just out of St. Cyr in World War I, he earned his first wound and his first citation in a victorious hand-to-hand clash with two German Uhlans...
...funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged out a 21-gun salute while the Father of Victory was buried in a hole dug in a briar patch at his birthplace, Mouilleron-en-Pareds, a bleak region
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