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...Astrology is a marvelous science and an infallible one, whereas clairvoyance is a gift and arrives at only problematical conclusions. For example, in August 1934, I had taken my son to Turckheim in the Vosges mountains. As I had nothing to do. except for walking, I set up Louis Barthou's horoscope-he was then Foreign Minister. As I was seting it up, I suddenly saw Uranus in the Gemini or 12th House. Why, I said to myself, there has been an attempt upon Barthou's life. As I knew that was not so, I progressed the planets...
...strikes the blow, and the presence of Uranus indicates firearms. Uranus governs everything mechanical. Astrology is a perpetual progression. The Egyptians based their predictions upon experience and observation; why shouldn't we do more? Therefore, immediately upon my return to Paris in September I went to see Louis Barthou, with whom I was especially well acquainted, as M. Barthou was an ardent Hugophile and I had been presented to him by Gustave Simon, Hugo's testamentary executor. So our ideas on literature coincided. At any rate, I made known to him the result of my deductions adding...
...Besides, remember that those whom the gods destroy they first make mad, and note the terrible coincidence by which Barthou began to run after he was wounded and then a distraught officer placed the tourniquet below instead of above the wound...
Canal directors receive $17,000 a year-almost twice the salary of the U. S. director of the Panama Canal. In France the post of Canal Director is a political reward for faithful service. Most French Presidents become directors. General Max Weygand was chosen to succeed the late Louis Barthou. British directors, all of whom planned to attend this week's meeting, include such bigwigs as the Earl of Cromer, Sir Thomas Royden. Sir Ian Malcolm, Sir J. T. Davies...
...assassin shots that crumpled up indomitable old French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15) delayed until last week what Germany has most dreaded-consummation of the Barthou-Litvinoff project for a military pact linking the Soviet Union and the French Republic...