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...aseptic start, the Gaullist Government formally "abolished" the "French State" of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. "In law," it proclaimed, "the Republic never ceased to exist...
General Charles de Gaulle sent a telegram to his onetime colleague on the Committee of National Liberation, General Henri Honoré Giraud, who had been shot in the cheek outside his villa near Oran by a drunken Senegalese sentry. The shot broke several of Giraud's teeth. General de Gaulle called for a "thorough examination" of the "outrage...
...Henri Matisse, now 74 and suffering from cancer, was at Grasse. His recent works were bold, bright studies of young girls...
...whereabouts of doddering old Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain was uncertain. Many Frenchmen were sure that he would be in Paris to meet the victorious Allies, if the Nazis did not kidnap him. But, a fortnight before, Petain had told diplomats still in Vichy: "Should it become known that I have left ... I wish to make it clear that I will not leave of my own volition...
Next morning his minute-to-minute schedule ground on. At the sumptuous residence of Henri Hoppenot, at 2929 Massachusetts Ave., De Gaulle met the people who were carrying on the work of his Committee in the U.S. Still poker-faced, in a low voice he said: "France will emerge once again. . . . Let the past be past...