TWO
THE STUDENT
(1899–1920)
GEORGES FREDERIC DORIOT WAS born in the Peugeot house in Paris. The birth announcement sent out by Auguste and Camille could not have been more cute or clever. It pictured a cherubic baby boy enthroned in the open cab of the newest mechanical marvel to astound mankind: the horseless carriage. The car was a Peugeot, of course, a twoseater with a rear engine and penny farthing wheels. Attached to the front of the car was a sign saying “No. 1”. The bare-bottomed boy—one arm placed firmly on the steering column, the other raised in a buoyant wave—smiles while driving the car. The card read: “Mr. and Mrs. Doriot are happy to announce the birth of their son Georges.” A wind-whipped banner hitched to the back of the car proclaimed ...
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