Word: petit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country was the country of the . . . 'petit bourgeois' spirit. . . . The arrival of the Americans, their methods, their supplies, helped considerably to upset their [Frenchmen's] ideas. They got into the habit of counting in billions...
There were bathrooms of pink marble with gold-plated washbasins; bedrooms done in beige and peach with four-posters decorated with petit-point insets. The smoking room sported a collection of trophies, including the stuffed heads of rhinos and antelopes, and a couple of completely stuffed turtles. A brace of stuffed trophies cheered the sick bay. Besides a suite for Mrs. Davies' daughter, Nedenia, there were staterooms for Mr. & Mrs. Davies, sleeping accommodations for 14 guests...
Brigadier General Ernest Petit, Chief of the Free French General Staff, was kept in Paraguay during France's part...
...wounded three times in World War I, was captured and escaped five times, only to be recaptured each time. (Psychological note; De Gaulle's two chief lieutenants, Generals Petit and Catroux, were also notable escapists.) After the war De Gaulle became Professor of Military History at Saint Cyr, afterwards a student at the Staff College. Between 1932 and 1936 he was general secretary of the Superior Council of National Defense, from which vantage point he observed the conditions which led to his two prophetic books...
...easy thing to be a Free Frenchman in 1941. As General Petit wrote, it is the most brutal, the most difficult choice. Most of the leaders have been condemned to death in absentia. Smaller fry who are caught get 15 years at hard labor. Most of the Free French have families living in France...