Word: berard
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Victor Berard, speaking in the Senate, poured scathing criticism on the Government. He claimed that France should no longer be represented at the Vatican as action by that institution was not favorable to France in the Near East, Alsace and Lorraine, Morocco, and even embarrassing in France itself. He also declared that by sending an ambassador to the Pope France had perhaps invited a coalition of Protestant European countries. He further criticized the reintroduction into France of monastic orders...
...Matin (Paris) published an article charging that three statues in the Louvre were largely of modern manufacture. It printed pictures made in 1843 and 1876 showing the statues, known as the Parthenay Kings, without heads, without legs; with these objects they are now well equipped. M. Berard, Minister of Fine Arts, ordered an investigation and the police are carrying...