Word: barthou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That respected, venerable statesman Minister of Justice Louis Barthou visited, last week, the prison of St. Lazare and there presented one Sister Marie Perpetue with the Order of the Legion of Honor for her 50 years' work among fallen women at the prison...
...Soon M. Barthou, impeccably frock-coated, issued out into a courtyard where the children of certain women prisoners were at play. Rushing in a merry group around the Minister of Justice they shouted "Oh, Papa! Papa! Give us a sou, papa...
Horrified, the Warden attempted to hush these shrill cries. But the face of M. Louis Barthou only crinkled in a smile: "Eh! mes petits, do I then resemble your so many 'papas'-what is the mystery...
...last the Secretary of the Academy, M. Robert Regnier, placed the definition of mémoire before the assembly. Said M. Louis Barthou, Minister of Justice, famed historian (TIME, Dec. 27) : "Human beings alone keep the memory of passing events; thus the word mémoire applies to the human race alone...
...Sacred Union" which made such legislative speed possible is no ordinary group of 13 ministers. Aside from their major attainments as statesmen, the Premier and eight of his ministers have published books of which France has no call to feel ashamed. Premier Poincaré and Minister of Justice Barthou have made history and then clapped it in scholarly fashion between covers. Foreign Minister Briand has to his credit an authoritative volume on the separation of Church and State. Books of travel, natural history and biography flow incessantly from the pen of Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier has attained...