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Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
Sent to Indo-China as Governor-General, Tomcat Sarraut lost several more lives in a stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve...
...Governor-General Sarraut returned to France, enlisted and lost a few more of his lives on the Western Front winning a breastload of medals. After the War he went back to Indo-China, again as Governor-General, only to be attacked by a Chinese Communist with a repeating pistol who pumped him full of lead...
...Twelve days are all I need to get over things like that!" Gourmet Sarraut likes to boast over a bottle. "Once an automobile ran over me on a bridge-so that not only were some of my bones crushed but I was also flung into the river. Ten days later-two days sooner than my twelve-day average-I was again on my two feet, somewhat splintered but able to work...
Colonies?Albert Sarraut...