Word: dauphin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNCROWNED KING ? Baroness Orczy ? Putnam ($2). Expert historical romance by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, dealing with a supposed career of the lost Dauphin...
Last week Henri, Jean Ill's hitherto un obtrusive Dauphin, showed unexpectedly the stuff of which practical politicians are made. Dropping the aloof dignity which is the badge of most legitimate pretenders, France's Henri, who is barred by law from his native land, rose up in Genoa to make what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Fran...
Last week "Dauphin" Henri seized on the Stavisky and Prince scandals and the general rottenness now proved rampant among officials of the Third Republic...
...Cabinet's failure to fulfill its pledge to reduce the cost of living and growing public distrust of the Government as the Stavisky scandal continues to stink, made many Frenchmen turn last week with pleasure if not with serious contemplation to the spirited campaign of young, untainted "Dauphin" Henri...
...discovered Jean Jacques' 'natural man'. . . ." Weiler, the innkeeper, told the Colonel and his Jesuit friend, Father Duchesne, about "the young man called Lazare who lived with the Indians but was white and remembered mobs and torches and the Revolution" and was supposed to be the Dauphin. Weiler's grandson, in the days when Johnny was growing up, kept a commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house...