sentences:  In 1938 Pétain encouraged and assisted the writer André Maurois in gaining election to the "Académie française" – an election which was highly contested, in part due to Maurois' Jewish origin.Maurois made a point of acknowledging with thanks his debt to Pétain in his 1941 autobiography, "Call no man happy" – though by the time of writing their paths had sharply diverged, Pétain having become Head of State of Vichy France while Maurois went into exile and sided with the Free French.Political unease was sweeping the country, and on 6 February 1934 the Paris police fired on a group of far-right rioters outside the Chamber of Deputies, killing 14 and wounding a further 236.