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    Paul Reynaud (French: [pɔl ʁɛno]; 15 October 1878 – 21 September 1966) was a French politician and lawyer prominent in the interwar period, noted for his...
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  • Frenchwoman best remembered for the strong influence she exerted on her lover Paul Reynaud, premier of France under the Third Republic, shortly before and at the...
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    21 March 1940 and his replacement by Paul Reynaud. Daladier remained Minister of Defence until 19 May, when Reynaud took over the portfolio personally after...
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    of France and the government desire for an armistice, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud resigned, recommending to President Albert Lebrun that he appoint Pétain...
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    attention of the maverick politician Paul Reynaud, to whom he wrote frequently, sometimes in obsequious terms. Reynaud first invited him to meet him on 5...
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    in the process when he took a bullet for former French prime minister Paul Reynaud. He is remembered as a hero of the Austrian Resistance against the Nazi...
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    Government of Édouard Daladier, on 20 March 1940, his Finance Minister Paul Reynaud was asked by President Albert Lebrun to form a new government, even though...
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  • as Admiral Ramsay Paul Leonard as Admiral Dudley Pound Demetri Goritsas as Cabinet Secretary Bridges Olivier Broche as Paul Reynaud Brian Pettifer as...
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    21 March 1940 and his replacement by Paul Reynaud. Daladier remained Minister of Defence until 19 May, when Reynaud took over the portfolio personally after...
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  • Anne, Philippe and little Elisabeth. As the Germans activate Fall Rot, Paul Reynaud appoints de Gaulle as Defence Minister, under the command of Deputy Prime...
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    tennis player Jean Borotra, former prime ministers Édouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud, former commanders-in-chief Maxime Weygand and Maurice Gamelin, Charles...
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    overtaken by defeatism. On the morning of 15 May, French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud telephoned the new British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill and said...
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    government), three former French prime ministers, Paul Reynaud, Édouard Daladier, Paul Ramadier, Paul van Zeeland, Albert Coppé and Altiero Spinelli, took...
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  • Austria, where he died under mysterious circumstances. According to Paul Reynaud, on Wednesday May 2, 1945, after drunkenly bragging about the recent...
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    Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; Paul Reynaud, the penultimate prime minister of the French Third Republic; Francisco...
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    Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and Maurice Gamelin as political prisoners at the fort. After the Riom Trials, Reynaud was transferred to...
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    French government began to discuss the possibility of an armistice. Paul Reynaud resigned as prime minister rather than sign an armistice, and was replaced...
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    no avail. Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne Flandin and Paul Reynaud, Laval brought in as his advisors, friends such as Maurice Foulon from...
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  • Reynaud, volleyball player Émile Reynaud (1844–1918), animator and inventor Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud (born 1925), French politician Colette Reynaud (1872–1965)...
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  • Oliver Stanley and Sir Kingsley Wood. It was the first to be attended by Paul Reynaud, the new French prime minister, who was accompanied by César Campinchi...
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    until he could believe in Chamberlain's eventual resolve. French premier Paul Reynaud was in London for much of Sunday and had a working lunch with Churchill...
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    Hitler that Italy will enter the war "at an opportune moment". 21 March: Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France following Daladier's resignation the...
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    Charles-Émile Reynaud (8 December 1844 – 9 January 1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the praxinoscope (an animation device patented in 1877...
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    devastated military, and poet Paul Valéry called him "the champion of France". He became Vice-Premier under Paul Reynaud in May 1940, when the only question...
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  • surrender to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The president of the council, Paul Reynaud, sent de Gaulle as an emissary to Britain, where de Gaulle was working...
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    for national defence and war by Prime Minister Paul Reynaud during the German invasion of France. Reynaud resigned after his proposal for a Franco-British...
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  • Nations] by preserving agreement with the nations gathered at Geneva". Paul Reynaud attacked the government for aiding Hitler by ruining the Anglo-French...
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    armament industry, especially its aviation industry, the Finance Minister Paul Reynaud supported by Daladier, brought in a series of sweeping laws that undid...
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    Minister Paul Reynaud accused Leopold of treason. Flemish historians Valaers and Van Goethem wrote that Leopold III had become "The scapegoat of Reynaud", because...
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    his Jewish ancestry above France's interests. On 18 May 1940 Premier Paul Reynaud appointed him briefly Minister of the Interior. Mandel opposed the Armistice...
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