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Married. Elizabeth Raoul-Duval, niece of U. S. Minister to The Hague, Richard M. Tobin; to Jean Coutourie, brother of Duchesse Decazes and Comtesse Charles de Lesseps; in Paris...
Later, in President Peret's office, M. Magne declared that the insulting word had not been intended for ex-Premier Painlevé, but "as a simple commentary on défaitists [name given to the pacifists during the war] like Bolo, Duval and Almerleda." The insult had been provoked by M. Mandel. This explanation was made public in the Chambre and was accepted...
...Elsinore and off into the West, you didn't feel like crying. A tragic climax such as that one gives a feeling of mystery and terror much more than of pity. When, on the other hand, you see Camille dying by inches in the postponed embrace of Armand Duval, you do want to weep...
...Lambert's Armand was sincere and moving. His earlier love scenes and his scene of denunciation were skilfully handied. But half the impassioned zest of this redeeming love affair was lost by the middle-aged reasoned and seasoned appearance of the players. The Georges Duval of M. Ravet was rather colorless and disappointing...
...this there is naught that is novel. Old histories of Paris and London tell of the concourses which attended Charles Duval, Dick Turpin, Jack Sheppard and other criminal worthies on their way to the gibbet at Tyburn and Montfaucon as the case might be. More recently this country witnessed the public testimonials paid to the life and character of Jesse James, Civil War guerrilla and highwayman, whose dashing bank raids are now so much affected. James was shot from behind by a comrade, Bob Ford, as he lay concealed in his hiding place. The American public was angered...