Word: painlev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cuffs, kicks and curses was the order of the day in the Chambre des Députés when Royalist Reputy Magne called canaille (Scum, scoundrel, brat, riffraff) in a loud voice, apparently at ex-Premier Painlevé, who was reading from a large book of records. M. Painlevé did not hear the serious imprecation hurled at him, but his friends insisted upon telling him about...
...mathematics, a critic of the Einstein theory. He dropped the big book with a bang and with 20 of his Socialist colleagues he dashed across the Chambre to storm the Royalist benches. Six uniformed sergeants-at-arms rushed forward to stop the threatened melée; one seized M. Painlevé around the waist, but it was useless; they were outnumbered. Blows, kicks, curses, cuffs rained in profusion...
Later, in President Peret's office, M. Magne declared that the insulting word had not been intended for ex-Premier Painlevé, but "as a simple commentary on défaitists [name given to the pacifists during the war] like Bolo, Duval and Almerleda." The insult had been provoked by M. Mandel. This explanation was made public in the Chambre and was accepted...
...argument centers around the discovery of General Foch, who was at that time in temporary retirement. Clémenceau claimed the honor of appointing him as Chief of the French General Staff in 1917, but M. Painlevé asserts in his book that he alone did the good deed...
...Paul Painlevé was born in Paris in 1863, and in his early childhood was forced to go through the siege of that city in 1870. After having finished his studies, he became a professor at the Lille University and later returned to Paris as a professor in the Ecole Polytechnique. It was when he was there that he was rather unnecessarily drawn into the Dreyfus case. In politics he is violently anticlerical, but is said to have too much ingenuousness in his character to make a good politician. Early in the War he was Minister of War under Premier...