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p. 41 ‘never considered the … Like all his family’ Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936, p. 93.
p. 42 She perfected her French Clara became a close friend of Aldebert’s older sister, Thérèse, who was married to Count Savorgnan de Brazza, the Italian-born French explorer for whom Brazzaville in West Africa was named. She was close to others in the same aristocratic circle. See Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, p. 29.
p. 42 The award was presented Pétain’s full name was Henri-Philippe-Bénoni-Omer Pétain, but he was usually called Philippe Pétain.
p. 43 ‘But there is an end’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, p. 243.
p. 43 ‘the appearance of General’ Ibid., p. 277.
p. 43 It was said that American Colonel Charles E. Stanton, in a speech at Lafayette’s tomb in the Picpus Cemetery on 4 July 1917, said, ‘Lafayette, we are here!’ See ‘Immortal War Slogans’, New York Times, 11 January 1942, p. 25.
p. 43 ‘In the spring of 1925’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, p. 327.
p. 43 The French Academy awarded Mary Niles Mack, ‘Between Two Worlds: The American Library in Paris during the War, Occupation and Liberation (1939–1945)’, Library Trends, Winter 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 7.
p. 44 Two years later Yves Pourcher, Pierre Laval vu par sa fille d’après ses carnet’s intimes, Paris, Le Cherche-Midi, 2002, p. 105. See also ‘Miss Laval is Bride; Becomes U.S. Citizen’, Chicago Daily Tribune, 20 August 1935, p. 17.
p. 44 ‘Swarthy as a Greek’ ‘Man of the Year’, Time, 4 January 1932.
p. 44 In October 1931 Time commented on Laval’s meeting with President Herbert Hoover at the White House: ‘President Hoover is well known to dislike almost all Frenchmen. He and Premier Laval had high words which they called “free and frank”. Smoking U.S. cigarettes at the furious rate of 80 per day, the didactic Frenchman in striped trousers, black jacket, white tie and suede-topped buttoned shoes wagged his short forefinger at the President in high-laced shoes and conservative business suit, making hotly such points as that France will not stand for having another Moratorium [on German war reparations payments to France] thrust forward from the U.S. “suddenly and brutally”.’ See Ibid.
p. 44 Friends said that Interview with Thierry Bertmann, godson of René de Chambrun’s close American friend, Seymour Weller, Paris, March 2006.
p. 45 ‘There was too much of it’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 109.
p. 45 ‘a wild scheme’ Ibid.
p. 45 Although Clara favoured … René founded the Ibid., p. 53.
p. 45 ‘she had referred’ Vincent Sheean, Between the Thunder and the Sun, New York: Random House, 1943, p. 67.
p. 46 ‘There we found’ General Aldebert de Chambrun, ‘Financial Crisis in 1935; Attempted Assassination at Versailles’, in France during the German Occupation, 1940–1944: A Collection of 292 Statements on the Government of Maréchal Pétain and Pierre Laval, translated from the French by Philip W. Whitcomb, Palo Alto, CA: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, vol. III, 1957, p. 1558.
p. 46 ‘The sights on the road’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 110.
p. 46 ‘Madame de Polignac’ Ibid., p. 111.
p. 46 ‘No gas Madame’ … ‘There is if you heat it.’ Ibid., pp. 111–12.
p. 47 ‘Having explored … he was in fact’ Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, p. 113.
p. 48 ‘And then, just as’ René de Chambrun, I Saw France Fall, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1940, pp. 155–6.
p. 48 ‘It is historically interesting’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 98.
p. 48 ‘That any man’ Ibid., p. 107.
p. 48 ‘nothing would have been left’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Like Myself, p. 114.
p. 49 ‘the very symbol’ Ibid., p. 116.
p. 49 ‘Both of them were’ Clara Longworth de Chambrun (Document No. 167) in France During the German Occupation, 1940–1944, vol. III, 1957, p. 1362.
p. 49 ‘Our three weeks there’ Longworth de Chambrun, Shadows Lengthen, p. 113.
Chapter Four: All Blood Runs Red
p. 50 ‘I said good-bye