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...Duc de Saint-Simon mentions this tale in his Memoirs...
...Talleyrand's life with the beguiling Mme de Flahaut, and-as if that were not enough-the discussion is carried on even unto the uttermost generation, and full details are given of the picturesque and irregular lives of Charles de Flahaut, the son of that union, and of the Duc de Morny...
Statesmen, be they never so great, must bow before the electorate-the sovereign mob-and thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well...
Observers, cogitating the news from Bar-le-Duc last week, deemed the speech of Premier Poincaré as surely and sweetly blended as Confiture de Bar-le-Duc, famed immemorial jam, exported hugely from the town to mingle on crackers with the cheeses of the world...
...guilt on France. Moreover Premier Poincare himself has been accused of being the chief author of the World War by revisionist historians. Would he stomach "Gambrinus" Stresemann's indiscretions? When M. Poincare announced that he would make one of his famed "Sunday speeches" at Bar-le-Duc, French Nationalist newsgatherers scurried thither, prepared to hear him tear the compromise of Thoiry to tatters...