{"id":4672,"date":"2012-06-30T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2012-06-30T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T17:49:23","slug":"count-robert-de-la-rochefoucauld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/9365640\/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html\">The Telegraph:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Other disguises also came in useful. On the run in occupied Bordeaux he dressed as a nun. In later life he helped Maurice Papon to flee to Switzerland.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nRobert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld was born in Paris on September 16 1923, one of 10 children of an aristocratic family which lived in old-fashioned splendour on Avenue de la Bourdonnais, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. An ancestor was Fran\u00e7ois de La Rochefoucauld, famous for his maxims. Robert\u2019s mother (n\u00e9e Wendel) was daughter of the Duke of Maill\u00e9. His father\u2019s family retained a private carriage which was hitched on to trains during rail journeys.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nConsidered a sickly child, Robert was sent to a succession of private schools for the jeunesse dor\u00e9e in Switzerland and Austria where, in 1938, he was taken on a school trip to Berchtesgaden, Hitler\u2019s Alpine retreat. When Hitler\u2019s convoy drew up, the Fuhrer approached and patted Robert on the cheek affectionately. It was, La Rochefoucauld later recalled, a dream come true for his 15 year-old self. Hitler was then the great statesman of Europe; young Robert and his schoolmates had attached swastikas to their bicycles in admiration.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph: Other disguises also came in useful. On the run in occupied Bordeaux he dressed as a nun. In later life he helped Maurice Papon to flee to Switzerland. Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld was born in Paris on September 16 1923, one of 10 children of an aristocratic family which lived in old-fashioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}