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Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel (1920), died in 1922 at 65, "the National Orator," several times President of the Chamber of Deputies, indefatigable spellbinding literateur, defeated Clemenceau for the Presidency largely by his ability to draw tears or laughter from any audience at will...
Foreigners remember M. Deschanel chiefly because-on May 24, 1920-he leaned from a window of the Presidential train, fell out clad in pajamas, suffered a nervous breakdown, resigned the Presidency on September...
...most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...
...independence in picking able Ministers from outside his own party (Nationalist), weathered an attack by Theodore Steeg, now French Resident-General to Morocco, and increased so greatly in prestige that he was elected President of the Republic by a vote of 695 to 892 on the resignation of President Deschanel. (See above...
When, in 1920, President Deschanel fell out of a train dressed in his pajamas ? a really sad story ? the Parisiens seized upon the incident with witty avidity. The following day every amusement place in Paris resounded with jokes at the expense of the unfortunate Deschanel...