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...French Royalist news organ, L' Action Française gravely carried in its "Court Circular," last week, the news that "King Jean III of France"† was sending his only son, the "Dauphin Henri of France" on a State Visit to British King-Emperor George V. Ignorant French republicans sniggered, supposing that a chill British reception, if any, awaited Dauphin Henri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jean III to George V | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...contrary, the State Visit was taken with utmost seriousness at Buckingham Palace. A banquet of thoroughgoing sumptuousness was got ready. His Majesty George V welcomed and even embraced the Dauphin of France, latest of the Bourbons. Her Majesty Queen-Empress Mary was ashimmer with diadems usually reserved for great occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jean III to George V | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...With the Dauphin arrived his sister, Princess Anne of France, who became the Duchessa delle Puglie of Italy, last year, when she married a cousin of Vittorio Emanuele, King of the Italians. To complete the roster of soi-disant royal guests came, last week, Her Majesty the Dowager ex-Queen Amelie of Portugal and her son ex-King Manoel, whose Realm is now a most turbulent and Dictator-ridden soi-disant Republic (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jean III to George V | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...began in the cradle. At four months she made her first conquest. Henry VIII sought her tiny hand for his infant Prince. But England was Scotland's hereditary foe; France the friend of her traditions and of the religion of the Scottish court. Mary's betrothal to the French Dauphin (Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Citizen Genet. "Louis Capet," said The National Gazette, "has lost his Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High Times | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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