sentences:  Pétain came first, with 47,000, ahead of Pierre Laval's 31,000 votes.These two men travelled to Warsaw for the funeral of the Polish Marshal Pilsudski in May 1935 (and another cordial meeting with Goering).Although "Le Petit Journal" was conservative, Pétain's high reputation was bipartisan; socialist Léon Blum called him "the most human of our military commanders".