Word: royaliste
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...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, cautious but lifelong royalist sympathizer, remained in Vichy as monarchism's chief hedge against Axis victory...
...France just before the downfall. (He made his first mistake by giving "a book on government by M. Léon Blum [former Socialist Premier now imprisoned at Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees] ... to a French steward on the Ile de France, who turned out to be a Royalist.") He also made the mistake of getting a phrase book to use in France. "Each page has a list of English expressions [with] French translations . . . alongside." Author Thurber learned to say: "I have left my glasses (my watch) (a ring) in the lavatory." In moments of crisis he knew the right...
Luckless Lover. Hugo's father was one of Napoleon's generals. Victor's infancy was full of the clash of swords. But the infant Hugo was not impressed by Bonaparte. Under the influence of his strong-willed mother, who despised her warrior husband, Victor became a Royalist. Father Hugo raged. But Mother Hugo got even by letting the little Hugos romp with their "godfather," her Royalist lover, General La Horie...
...made his living by ribbing the tolerant Third Republic, which he called "the whore." Now it was gone. France, which he loved, was overrun with Germans-"uniformed blackguards, helmeted swine." The Royalist cause, of which he had been the loudest & funniest champion, was all but forgotten. And the good wines of France, which he claimed would "improve bad heredity, amplify good heredity," were mostly being used for the improvement of Nazis. There was little left for him to live for when, last week, death came to old Léon Daudet, 74, longtime editor of Paris' L' Action...
...Daudet's career, a milestone in Third Republic high jinks, sprang from tragedy. In 1924 his 14-year-old son, Philippe, was found dead in a taxi. Police pronounced it suicide. Daudet screamed that the police had murdered the boy in retaliation for his father's Royalist disturbances. Even under France's liberal libel laws, Daudet was convicted of libeling both the police and taxi driver, sentenced to six months imprisonment. But the time of serving the sentence was politely left up to Daudet...