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...Daudet, French royalist editor: " I announced in an article in L' Action Française, that the big gun which shelled Paris during the war, supposedly from 87 miles away, was really an electric gun situated in one of the suburbs...
...prove how much more ruined they are now than when they declared themselves completely ruined. Imaginations on both sides will fly high and far, but judging from current reports the German imagination will fly much the higher and farther. The Ruhr German apparently has the more pronounced characteristics of Daudet's Monsieur Tartarin who elongated and enlarged his stories to such a point that he believed them himself. For instance an official at Barmen told a newspaper correspondent that the French ran the same train of coke across the frontier by day into Alsace and back again by night...
...prominent men in the ranks of the Royalist Party, Maxime del Sarte, Marius Plateau (recently murdered in the office of the Action Française), and Lucien Lacour. In turn it is sponsored by the French Royalist newspaper, L'Action Française, of which Léon Daudet is the head. Writing of them Daudet says: "Camelots du Roi was the beginning of a vast movement which was soon to sweep along the majority of French youth." To some extent this is true...
...Daudet, editor of the Action Française, son of the famous novelist, Alphonse Daudet, and himself no mean writer, is the energy of the Royalist movement. Charles Maurras, also an editor of the paper, distinguished by the excellence of his polemics, may be termed the moral and theoretical leader of the party. The late Marius Plateau, who was killed by a female assassin, was considered the greatest organizer of the three. It was on account of his death that the Camelots raided the offices of the radical newspapers, L'Oeuvre and the Ere Nouvelle...
...month's record of 54 volumes. The list is as follows: J. D. Beresford, "H. G. Wells"; D. C. Brewer, "The Rights and Duties of Neutrals"; G. K. Chesterton, "The Crimes of England"; J. Conrad, "Within the Tides"; F. Cuttriss, "Romany Life"; F. J. H. Darton, "Arnold Bennett"; L. Daudet, "L'Entre Deux Guerres"; F. Dostoevsky, "The Insulted and the Injured"; W. L. George. "Anatole France"; H. Green, "The Log of a Non-Combatant"; R. Herrick, "The World Decision"; L. Johnson, "Poetical Works"; C. E. Lauriate, Jr., "The Lusitania's Last Voyage"; G. E. Lessing, "Saintliche Schriften"; T. R. Lounsbury...