Pierre Laval: the man in the white tie: Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.(Profiles in Power)

History Review | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

Churchill's siren-suit, Chamberlain's umbrella, Harold Wilson's gannex, Baldwin's pipe, Mrs. Thatcher's handbag--all are appropriate. But Pierre Laval's white ties, sported from his campaign for a parliamentary seat in 1914 until his execution in October 1945, seem bizarre. Contemporaries and historians unite in stressing his reputation for wheeler-dealing, hence his nickname 'the horse-trader'. His apparent lack of principle prompted Vincent Auriol to maintain that 'everything about him is black, his clothes, his face, his soul. Whether you spell his name backwards or ...

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