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...barricade of sandbags and barbed wire was erected last week by perspiring young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve...
...Daudet, who recognizes no political authority save that of the "King of France,"* immediately called out last week his "Camelots du Roi" a band of young Royalists thus derisively nicknamed "The King's Hawkers" because they have at times hawked upon the streets copies of L'Action Française. With sandbags, barbed wire, and 100 "Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots...
...Communists, perhaps 100 strong, gathered outside the office of L'Action Française, shouting: "Down with Daudet! To jail with...
High mass drew to its solemn close in Beaux Cathedral, France. Three young men waited in the square outside to sell newspapers to the faithful. All the newspapers were the same-an issue of Editor Leon Daudet's L' Action Française (royalist), for whose editorial attacks upon Republican Catholics the Pope lately placed the newspaper on the index expurgatorius (TIME, Jan. 24) and more lately excommunicated impenitent Editor Daudet and his colleague, Charles Maurras. . . . Out of the Cathedral came, not only the flock but their shepherd as well, the Bishop of Beaux in the awful splendor...
Thus howled, last week, the Royalist organ L'Action Française. Its editor, Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics...