|
|
Article: The last refuge of britain' s fuhrer; In need of a caring new owner, the French summer villa where the defiant Mosleys lived as pariahs.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: SEBASTIAN O'KELLY
The neat but dull dormitory village of Orsay, southwest of Paris, seems a curiously prosaic place of exile for one of the most reviled - and tragic - figures of 20th Century British history: Sir Oswald Mosley.
It is hard to imagine a man viewed by the wartime public as evil as Old Nick himself walking down these tidy streets of blameless suburban houses, manicured lawns and little municipal flowerbeds, artfully placed to slow the commuter traffic.
When Sir Oswald and Diana Mosley came to live in France in 1950, Orsay was probably as sleepy as Henley was at that time, and Diana Mosley in her memoirs, A Life Of ...