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Thus, last week, read a sentence in the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Francaise. The writer, famed, impudent, irrepressible Editor Leon Daudet was still in secret hiding last week (TIME, June 13 et seq.) defying the French police to discover whither he had escaped from the Prison Sante...
...noontime, while Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut was lunching, a young Royalist entered a telephone booth in the Ministry of Interior. He called the Prison Santé, asked for its Director, M. Catry, and mimicking the voice of an assistant of Minister Sarraut, ordered that M. Léon Daudet and two other prisoners should be instantly released from jail...
...called the Ministry of Interior. Meanwhile several dozen other Royalists had called all the Ministry's telephones except that in the booth. Therefore the call of Director Catry was switched to the only available phone, that at which stood the mimicker, who, for a second time, ordered M. Daudet's release, rebuked M. Catry...
...longer suspicious, went to Editor Daudet's cell and released him. M. Daudet burst into tears, kissed M. le Directeur Catry, wrung his hand, and rushed out into the street to mount a taxi. Even the taxi driver was a Royalist in disguise...
...until two hours later did Paris learn the news. . . . Even dyspeptics chuckled, and men of spirit openly roared at one another over café tables: "Vive Daudet! Vive l'Audace...