Word: sarraut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grenoble, city of glovemakers and students, Darnand's men killed 18 intellectuals in one week. On a country road, they assassinated 81-year-old humanitarian Professor Victor Basch and his wife. Respected Maurice Sarraut, owner of the famous democratic newspaper La Dépêche, was shot dead on a Toulouse street. Two French senators were murdered...
...Interior who had set about ruthlessly suppressing dissension in the land, then roared that he would order a lettre de cachet (imprisonment without trial) of anyone advocating separate peace-including Cabinet Ministers. The argument crackled and burned. Suddenly heavy-faced Edouard Daladier stormed out of the room. Sarraut and de Monzie, spaniel-like Ministers of Education and Public Works, followed...