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...inimitable, irrepressible, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank you, M. Daudet! I salute you!" Soon, one by one, the 980 Royalist youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe in a limousine. They went first to Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife...
Meanwhile M. le Président Gaston Doumergue of France received hundreds of appeals to pardon M. Daudet. The government was reputedly much inclined to this step; and no attempt whatever was made by the police last week to arrest Editor Daudet, who dined sumptuously on all manner of delicacies sent him by Parisians who admire his flashing spirit, consider him at worst harmless, at best a priceless "character...
Reporters who interviewed M. Daudet some 29 hours after his arrest should have taken place found him genial but defiant...
...There are several "pretenders," but M. Daudet bestows his loyalty on M. le Due de Guise, "successor" to the late Louis Philippe, Due d' Orleans (TIME, April...