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...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
...Besson's troubles with the police started in 1932, when a lawyer brought suit for an unpaid bill of $200. Losing his case, Deputy Besson defiantly refused to pay, was sentenced to three months in jail. The job was to catch him. France allows her citizens a total of 31 days in jail before they can be disbarred from public office. At various times, M. Besson had served nearly three weeks behind bars for passing bad checks and attacking uniformed flunkies. Another ten days would ruin his political career...
...three years the chase went on. As long as Parliament was in session Deputy Besson staved off arrest by claiming parliamentary immunity. The minute the Chamber was dissolved he would escape to sanctuary in Belgium...
Finally the Deputies of France grew tired of M. Besson. By a vote of 335 to 28, they booted him out of office as a psychopathic case. Fat Inspector "Bouboule" was assigned to capture him. While the vote was being counted Besson fled. To a police brigadier waiting to clap hands on him, Besson snarled, "Do not touch me, I have my Parliamentary immunity. The vote, my friend, has not yet been counted." Out the back door he slipped again, and "Bouboule" found himself ignominiously suspended from the police department for one month...