Word: sexagenarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sexagenarian general's rope trick was, however, no illusion. He wanted to help France. But when he reached Vichy he found a France quite unlike anything he had heard about within Königstein's walls. Marshal Pétain embraced him, then gave him a paper to sign, which among other things pledged him never to take up arms against Germany. General Giraud balked. Then Pierre Laval slyly suggested that the general could do France a mighty service by offering to return to prison in exchange for 400,000 married French war prisoners. General Giraud was amenable...