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When he stepped into Montreal's C.N.R. terminal last week, 10,000 people surged forward to welcome him with flowers and posters saying: "Bienvenue, Camillien Houde!" (Welcome, Camillien Houde!). Hoarsely they sang Il a gagné ses é paulettes, French Canadian equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Houde burst into a torrent of French: "I believe that someone would have preferred to see me back in a dress suit, lying in satin, rather than back alive...
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