Word: saint-cyr
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Early Life. Born May 5, 1908 at Chalons-sur-Marne, the son of an artillery officer. Graduated from Saint-Cyr. France's West Point, in 1930, was posted to the colonial infantry in French Equatorial Africa...
...demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise had been a capable, serious-minded government secretary. Jacques, an illegitimate child whose parents had married only as an afterthought, was a graduate of Saint-Cyr, an artillery lieutenant and a dedicated student of philosophy...
World War I: Enlisted as a cavalry private, he was wounded, later sent to Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Returned to the trenches with a Moroccan regiment, won his first Croix de Guerre (he now has three, embellished with 17 palms). Fought against the Riffian tribes of Abd el Krim in Morocco in the 1920s, stayed on as a native-affairs officer. Speaks Arabic and the Berber dialects fluently...
...chief of the French government," L'Express lumped Brisson and Le Figaro with "those wretched persons who dug a ditch for France . . . who twice a year sold Americans on the great Indo-China illusions . . . who sold the prestige of France in Asia and the young graduates of Saint-Cyr for American subsidies." The new government's policies, firmly declared L'Express, had filled the ditch with solid ground...
...polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...