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...last and heaviest burden in the destiny of Henri Philippe Petain has been a seemingly interminable life. The officer who waited 44 years to become a major, 62 years to be Marshal of France, 84 years to be chief of the French state, was condemned as a traitor at 89. Today, in his fortress cell at Ile d'Yeu, he waits...
...surprised," De Gaulle said, "that none of you ask me about Marshal Petain. Let me talk to you about him ... It was necessary to condemn him, because his person symbolized capitulation . . . But today there only remains an old man in a fortress who once rendered great services to France. Is he to be allowed to die without again seeing a tree, a flower, or a friend?" Petain, De Gaulle thought, should be the first to be released...
...that he would live to be no was rapidly failing. By special dispensation he was no longer forced to make his bed or sweep his room, and he had given up his two daily 30-minute strolls in the prison yard. Though the prison director allowed him a radio, Petain seldom turned it on. But he still clung to his firm resolve to let posterity judge him on his record. The last paragraph in his will explained why he had never written his memoirs. Wrote Petain (according to his lawyer): "I would have had to praise myself and say unpleasant...
...Krim, bearded, limping Riff chief who nearly drove the Spaniards out of Morocco in the '20s (before France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, put in charge of combined Spanish and French forces, went down and whipped him), finally got the answer he wanted to a letter he has been sending to Paris every year. He could now get off Reunion Island, a muggy spot in the Indian Ocean to which he had been exiled (with two favorite wives and many relatives) back in 1926. Abd el-Krim decided to move to the French Riviera...
Professor Garnot remained at his teaching post throughout the war and was never arrested, though warned several times by his students that his remarks in class might jeopardize his life. Like the other professors in France, he refused to sign the pledge of cooperation with the Petain government...