Word: droits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born at LeHavre in 1875, his education was completed at the Lycee Condorcet, the Faculte des lettres, Faculte de droit, and School of political science, after which he became a member of the French bar. He was also a member of the "Society of the French Renaissance," professor of the School of political science, and chevalier of the Legion of Honor, besides having a British Military Medal...
...Maria Vérone, Présidente de la Ligue Francaise pour le Droit des Femmes, intimated that spying on and gossiping about the morals of Senators would be stopped, in each individual case, as soon as the terrorized victim turns feminist...
Charles Rist, Deputy Governor of the Banque de France (Emile Moreau is Governor), a close-mouthed man, who was of the four least known to U. S. newsgatherers. Few realized that he had been professor of law in the Faculté de Droit de Paris; that he was an intimate of Premier Raymond Poincare of France; that he was an intimate of onetime (1917 & 1925) French Premiers Paul Painlevé and (1924-25 & 1926) Edouard Herriot, with whom in 1921 he helped organize the now moribund Ligue de la Republique to fight Alexandra Millerand's Bloc National and establish...
...British lawyer is not, however, prominent in Political affairs. From 1919 to 1923 he was a professor in the University of London. He is in addition a corresponding member of I'Institut de Droit compare, and a member of I'Institut de Droit International...
...dealing with the war. Different soldiers, representing different wars in French history are shown seated on a bench with room for just one more. A Pollu, holding an olive branch behind his back, bows to the assemblage, and a caption below reads -- "Vous permettez-les anciens?" Jean Droit is the artist...