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...Doddering old Mustafa el Nahas, Wafd Premier, once got a certain Madame de Buisson with child, whereupon her humiliated husband killed himself. On another occasion the Wafd party-largely composed of poor peasants-paid ?6,000 to a Polish newswoman to get her to leave the country after she had had an affair with Nahas...
...Baron de Roquette-Buisson, like many of the provincial aristocrats of France, is not noted for generous living. Every year he kills three pigs and ten geese at his château at Saint-Félix. On this, along with whatever can be garnered from the château gardens, his family and retainers must suffice. And so the baron's astonishment rose as bills came rolling in for sardines, eau de cologne, biscuits, marmalade, bananas, oranges, soap and chocolate cake. He was still puzzling one day when the baroness entered the room, crying: "Bertrand, we have been...
...because of ill health, the right to go out into the world without losing her religious status. Thus released from the strenuous Carmelite vows, Sister Madeleine entered the order of the Dominicans of Béthanie, in which she kept good standing while looking after the three Roquette-Buisson children. Said she: "The baron is fond of horses . . . He lives the life of a gentleman farmer, taking the baroness along to a great round of parties, neglecting the children . . . After the first year, the baron stopped paying [my salary]. There was a terrible scene whenever I asked for money...
Unimpressed, Baron de Roquette-Buisson's lawyer announced that he would sue Sister Madeleine for $857 damages. The judge reserved sentence, but there was nothing reserved about the furious uproar against the baron which rose in the crowded Toulouse courtroom...
...Speaker, because of his being chosen President of France, they had to cast about for someone new. chose pompous, scholarly 68-year-old Senator Jules Jeanneney, Radical Socialist. The Chamber as a matter of course re- elected by a landslide vote of 50440-50 tall. bold, hot-tempered Ferdinand Buisson, Socialist. Famed for his zesty anecdotes, Deputy Buisson is the political darling of Marseilles (as Premier Herriot is of Lyons). He presides over the Chamber loudly, is fond of bellowing: "You over there! Yes, I mean you!! Sit down!!! Your chance to speak, Monsieur, will come in one little moment...