It is a solace for those who during the last
months have watched with anxiety the strain to which Pierre Vie not's frail health Wit exposed to realise that the pattern of his life achieved so perfect I conclusion. His difficult task had almost been completed, and on a few days before he died le was able to set foot upon the liberated soil of France. He had watched the clouds lighten and then dis' appear ; he had witnessed the miracle of D Day ; he had crossed the Channel, set foot upon the beaches, and heard the Marseillaise risa out as a song of triumph in the streets of Bayeux. The years d imprisonment, of exile and of misunderstanding had been SW away in that one great hour of ecstasy. His fears had left him his hopes were justified ; when he returned to London the light faith and love and happiness sparkled in his eyes. For in his and life, in his triumphant death, he had earned, as few other men earned, the right to bear that proud historic title :—Ambassad de France.
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