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General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattrede Tassigny was a fighting hero in two wars against Germany. He was tall, dark, gallant with the ladies. To his soldiers he was the model of military men. He was also a patriot.

The young (54) general's name was once connected in the press with the Rightist Cagoulards. He served Vichy as military commander in Tunisia and later at Montpellier, French military district on the Mediterranean. While still considered a "safe" Vichyman, General de Lattre de Tassigny turned and snapped at the hand that lay heavy on France.

When the Germans moved to occupy all of France, General de Lattre de Tassigny acted with his usual gallantry. With 200 troops he took control of the beach at Sete, between the Spanish border and the French naval base at Toulon. There were reports that he was carrying out his part of a general plan of French Army resistance to German occupying troops.

If this was true, it helped to explain why De Lattre de Tassigny, apparently guilty of mutiny, was charged with "abandoning his post." Last week at a secret trial in Lyon he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment (or for the "duration"). Imprisoned, he could still consider himself in gallant company. Youthful Prince Louis Napoleon, Bonapartist pretender, was arrested last week while trying to run the border into Spain.

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