Word: daudets
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...French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale et immortelle! Vive le Roi! Vive le Dauphin!" and then with a mighty shout, as a little man rushed from the station, "VIVE DAUDET! VIVE DAUDET...
...little man was so overcome with joy that tears coursed steadily down his cheeks, sobs choked him. He was unable to respond to frenzied exhortations for a speech. The pandemonium lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July...
...last the frantically honking chauffeur was able to get the ancient taxi started and it wheezed slowly off amid a white shower of flowers. Soon it clattered to a stop at the modest residence of Mme. Alphonse Daudet, widow of the great novelist whose Letters from My Mill have delighted millions. On the doorstep mother clasped son -the son who keeps up an indomitable fight for monarchy as editor of the newspaper L' Action Française. To the paper's masthead is nailed a stirring line pledging the paper to support the Due de Guise, heritier...
From his mother's hearth Editor Daudet rushed to the grave of his son Philippe- famed as a martyr royalist. Picture postcards of this youth are constantly distributed by L'Action, each boldly imprinted: "Philippe Daudet, born Jan. 7th, 1909, assassinated Nov. 24th, 1923, by the police of the French Republic...
BIZET'S L'ARLESIENNE, excerpts by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)-The warm, instantly appealing music made for Daudet's play. Conductor Stokowski plays it brilliantly. Operagoers will recognize bits borrowed to make the Carmen ballet...