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Despite his long sojourns in France, the Duke of Windsor still speaks French with an accent. While inspecting flowerbeds at his new property at Gif-sur-Yvette outside Paris, he was giving instructions in French to his head gardener when he was interrupted: "Excuse me, Your Highness, but I do not speak any English...
...Young Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory, and his big farm at Bellerive-sur-Allier became an important Resistance headquarters. He was one of the founders with Bidault, of the Committee of National Resistance. On Liberation Day in August 1944, he walked beside De Gaulle down the Champs Elysees...
...academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...
...which, like several others, leaked out of jail last week, typified to Argentines the spirit of defiance and even gaiety with which many of Perón's recent political prisoners bore their lot. High-spirited Victoria Ocampo, sixtyish, wealthy editor of Buenos Aires' highbrow literary magazine Sur, reportedly kept her sister prisoners laughing by telling jokes, organized a drama group to put on French plays. But the hero of most of the stories was indomitable old Alfredo Palacios. When fellow prisoners speculated whether there had really been an organized anti-Perón plot, Palacios snorted...
...Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...