Word: marcelline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen think he looks exactly like Ed Wynn, they are not sure whether he is insane, and they are always ready to read reams about the latest exploit of Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, the famed "Incredible Philibert" (TIME, Dec. 23). It is incredible but true that in hard-headed France, M. Philibert has got away with printing a fantastic international money which he calls the Europa Franc and which he manages to spend in the shops of his native district of Haute Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents...
...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...