Word: berthon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mlle. Germaine Berthon, who shot M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française, Royalist journal, last January, was put on trial for her life...
...leading Royalists, who was possessed of the business and organizing brains of both the paper and the Party, to interview her, which he did. After a brief conversation with her, M. Plateau rose and opened the door to let her out. As she passed him Mlle. Berthon shot him dead...
...journal, and fired a revolver shot into the ceiling. " Don't be afraid," he cautioned the staff, " I have come from the anarchists to warn you." He was then overpowered and arrested. His action caused a great sensation in Paris, as it was only last January that Germaine Berthon, also an anarchist, killed M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française. She intended to kill Léon Daudet, proprietor of the paper...