Word: berthon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquittal of 20-year-old Mlle. Germaine Berthon of shooting Marius Plateau, an editor of L' Action Française (TIME, Dec. 31), received the following comment from the Paris press...
...Gaulois demanded: "Under what aberration could the French citizens on the jury yesterday lend themselves to the glorification of anarchy? . . . In freeing Germaine Berthon they gave a premium to communism and anarchy." Le Gaulois thought that the case, instead of belittling the Royalists, shows France really needs a dictator if democratic juries cannot render a better verdict...
...Intransigeant thought that the jury had given France a poor Christmas present (Mlle. Berthon was acquitted Dec. 24) and called the verdict worse than absurd...
...Mile. Berthon is described by the Radicals as a sweet and pretty 20-year-old girl. In the Act of Accusation she was called "a violent, lazy, untidy girl, with dissolute morals and dishonest." To the Court she said: "I regret nothing. My life shall pay for my act." She was reported, however, to have said that she regretted not having killed M. Daudet...
...moments later the man found himself on a little platform. "Let everything go to hell," he cried, "Let everything go to hell, but my mother and my lawyer. Vive Jaurès! Vive l'Anarchie! Vive Germaine Berthon! Vive les Russes...