The Archive · 1941

Ex-President Becomes

Recluse

Pacing the grounds of the beautiful chateau which he refused to accept as a gift from the nation is France's loneliest man—ex-President Albert Lebrun, a man whom the world has forgotten since he handed over his office to Petain on July 15.

He and his wife have been living since then within a few yards of the chateau, at the home of his son-inlaw outside the village of Vezilles.

Although completely at bbe! Lebrun seldom leaves the imm neighbourhood, and is seen in e nearby town of Grenoble only om rare occasions.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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