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Plot & Promise. General Henri Giraud last week dredged up a plot to usurp power and install the youthful Pretender, the Comte de Paris, as head of a North African kingdom. One guess was that the Comte would be shipped back to his pig farm in Tangier...
...General Henri Giraud has always had what the Arabs call the baraka, an uncanny ability to escape death and disaster. He is tall (6 ft. 4 in.), physically powerful, deeply religious, politically conservative, morally self-righteous. He has been wounded six times, cited for bravery 13 times...
...told the most about General Giraud is the General himself. A hitherto unpublished memorandum, which Giraud presented last spring to Marshal Henri Pétain, reveals the mind of a man who will need all the baraka in North Africa if he hopes to control the squirming ant heaps of political intrigue inside his present Government...
Considering his 19th-Century fame, the prolific number of paintings he produced, and the fact that he taught French Modernists Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse in their youth, also British Painter Sir John Lavery, astonishingly little is known about Adolphe William Bouguereau. He was born at La Rochelle, France in 1825, clerked in Bordeaux under his father, an olive oil trader, attended Bordeaux's Ecole des Beaux-arts...
...prospects of getting together with all other anti-Axis Frenchmen (including General de Gaulle) Geneneral Henri Giraud said this week: "Everything will be satisfactorily arranged, and we shall all be united against Vichyism and fight the Nazis." This was either a hint or a hope...