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LYAUTEY - André Maurois - Appleton...
Experts saw back of this sizable vote the glittering pince-nez of André Tardieu, antepenultimate Prime Minister. Pierre Laval, son of a provincial butcher, once a hot Socialist but now leaning more and more to the Right, is known to be a protégé of Tardieu, who seems unable or unwilling to form a ministry of his own at this time...
There were few newsworthy appointments. Potent, shambling Aristide Briand maintains his traditional post as Minister of Foreign Affairs.* In the Ministry of Agriculture-where occurred the Wheat Scandal that felled the Steeg Cabinet-is none other than kinetic André Tardieu himself. Sad-eyed Georges Leygues of the sweeping mustachios lost his post as Minister of Interior to the new Prime Minister. Gigantic, limping André Maginot, Tardieu's sabre-rattling Minister of War, held the same post again last week...
...Saint Phalle & Co. was dissolved, reorganized, with four partners instead of twelve. Still with the firm is François de Saint Phalle. Not with it are Fal de Saint Phalle, AlexAndré de Saint Phalle, André de Saint Phalle, Pierre de Saint Phalle, Edward J. Lobkowicz...
Pierre Roy is fiftyish, stocky, wears pince-nez and a very neat toothbrush mustache. Educated in England, he still buys his clothes there, is seldom seen without his bowler hat, yellow gloves and tightly rolled umbrella. M. Roy is completely bilingual and looks not unlike Premier André Tardieu. He has more over attained the nirvana of the French bourgeoisie, he is a rentier and need never paint a stroke, could live quite comfortably on his inherited income...