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...well off. Papa taught philosophy. For hulking Charles, the family determined on St. Cyr, the West Point of France. Charles entered low, graduated high-in 1911. As an honor student, he had the privilege of choosing his regiment. He chose the 33rd Infantry, commanded by a Major Pétain...
Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...
...came in 1942's late summer. Parliament's rump gathered in Châtelguyon's shabby Hotel Richelieu, heard Cabinet Chief Pierre Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
...June 1940 famed Continental Actor Karlweis pretty much played Jacobowsky in real life. Karlweis was in Paris without a passport when the Nazis smashed toward it. He started south in his tiny Citroën. When "that old rat" Pétain took over, Karlweis plunged desperately on. Says he: "I was a very lucky man." Someone who had admired him in a movie helped him get a transit visa to Spain. From there another admirer helped get him to Portugal. Three months later he was in Manhattan...
Pierre Pucheu himself had the last word. Bitterly he cried: "The majority of Frenchmen followed Pétain as long as they thought that he served France. Are they traitors or third-class patriots? . . . [My conviction will] plant the first stake in a civil war. . . . Whatever happens, vive la France...