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...tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Fran??oise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family. Fran??oise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy is of the 1929 vintage. "In her arms and legs, movement lay coiled, as in the springs of a watch." When Molinoff smokes his fragrant cigarets, drinks...
...Founded in 1795, as a union of the five French academies of arts and sciences, the oldest and most honorable being the Académie Fran??aise, established 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu. Members of the Academy are France's Immortals, their immortality guaranteed by government decree. Other academies are: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Académie des Sciences; Académie des Beaux Arts; Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques...
California's Hiram Johnson declared that the treaty's advocates had "analyzed it practically into disintegration." He said he would vote "under no delusions at all." He quoted the swashbuckling versifier Fran??ois Villon...
Members of the Chamber of Deputies were loud in shouting, last week, that no sufficient reason existed. Mme. Montard had simply chanced to be employed as local switchboard operator for the Royalist newspaper L'Action Fran??aise when its staff decided to get their editor, M. Leon Daudet, out of prison by mimicking the voice of a high official and ordering his relaese (TIME, July 4). Mme. Montard, by handling these hoax calls, became, in the eyes of the police, a conspirator. She was arrested, led into the grey depths of La Prison Sant?...
Meanwhile the police, to their intense chagrin, continued powerless to find the secret hiding place of M. Daudet who, last week, contributed daily an impudent, secretly written article to L'Action Fran??aise, reviling and ridiculing the Cabinet...