Word: rightests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament. When defeat came in 1940's summer, Edouard Herriot was President of the Chamber of Deputies. The men of Vichy had no use for the man of Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors...