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...audience to realize that French families were divided as our American families were divided in the Civil War, and it is complicated and simple." In Yes, Henry and his young brother Ferdinand become part of the Resistance; Henry's wife and her aristocratic family are pro-Pétain. There is plenty of squabbling but no melodrama -"that's the way it was, you know"-and Henry, while loathing his wife's politics and relatives, never ceases to love...
Cried Aragon, "poet of the Resistance," "Why won't I become a candidate for the Academy? Just look at them! It would honor the Academy, not me. The Academy had a chance to act courageously before the liberation by throwing out Pétain. It acted too late...
...headlines of rival papers played a game of 'tis-'tain't. One day last week Hearst's New York Journal-American proclaimed: SAY HULL EDICT DECIDED JAPS
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, former Marshal of France: serving a life sentence (commuted from death penalty) in a Pyrenees fortress...