Napoleon lends his support

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33538, 20 May 1974, Page 13

Napoleon lends his support

f.V.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) PARIS, May 19. Napoleon is going to vote for Mr Giscard d'Estaing in the Presidential Election. So is Brigitte Bardot. So is France’s most famous secret agent, “Colonel Remy.” In the battle for the backing of the famous, the Minister of Finance seems to be a few lines ahead in the social register, but only a few. Mr Mitterrand has a group of intellectuals backing his candidate, from the novelist Francoise (“Bonjour Tristesse”) Sagan, to the Communist poet, Louis Aragon, the film director, Claude Chabrol, and the feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir. Probably the best publicity gimmick of the cam-

paign came when BB donned a T-shirt with “Giscard at the helm” blazoned across her famous frontage.

His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Jerome Victor-Emmanuel Leopold Marie Napoleon, a descendant of the Bonapartes, explained why he was voting for Mr Giscard d’Estaing, a fellow' aristocrat in style if not by blood. “We want a France for all French, more just, more modern, more humane, more prosperous. The man to lead this France must be a man of national unity. We must elect Valery Giscard d’Estaing.” “Colonel Remy” was the name that Free French fighter Gilbert Renault; took when he formed the Brotherhood of Notre Dame in Nazioccupied France in November, 1940.