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...clattered to a stop at the modest residence of Mme. Alphonse Daudet, widow of the great novelist whose Letters from My Mill have delighted millions. On the doorstep mother clasped son -the son who keeps up an indomitable fight for monarchy as editor of the newspaper L' Action Française. To the paper's masthead is nailed a stirring line pledging the paper to support the Due de Guise, heritier des quarante Rois qui en mille ans firent la France! (heir of the 40 Kings who in 1,000 years created France...
Correspondents were told by U. S. motor men in Paris that such duties would mean doubling the retail price of Fords assembled in France, thus making it impossible for this car, shrewdly advertised as Le Ford Français, to compete with what French Ford salesmen call "other French cars" such as Citroens, Baby Peugeots, Baby Renaults...
...individual who commits acts of cruelty upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...
...Western Man) is a scholarly, lively, devout, belligerent Roman Catholic, living in France. In company with his compatriots Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Montague Summers, his Catholicism makes him an apologist for the Middle Ages, a contemner of his own. Author D. B. Wyndham Lewis has also written François Villon...
...People who remember that the "Tiger" generally slept in his clothes, hardly ever allowed them to be pressed, and once wore the same hat for twelve years, know that Valet Albert, however faithful, could never valet satisfactorily exquisite Chief Chiappe, but may make an excellent inspector of police. Chauffeur François Brabant, who dug the grave of the Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will...