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Thirty-six hours after his attack he was, by sheer force of will, able to greet Dr. Laubry, his specialist, standing on his own feet. Anxiously hovering near was his trained nurse, white-coifed Sister Theoneste. Ten years ago during the Peace Conference, Clémenceau was shot-wounded by a young anarchist named Cottin.* It was Sister Theoneste who nursed him back to health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated...
...amazing reaction, gentlemen!" said he. "A few more days like this one and M. Clémenceau may be considered out of immediate danger. Unfortunately the nights are very much harder on him than the days. Perhaps in your stories it would be safer for you to use the word 'Armistice' than 'Victory...
...next morning Correspondent Ralph Heinzen passed through the "Death Watch," entered M. Clémenceau's bedroom. He found the old gentleman at his desk again, scratching at his manuscript, still grumbling at patient Sister Theoneste, looking with his cap, his drooping mus-Of Anarchist Emile Cottin Tiger Clémenceau has exclaimed: "The idot! They condemned him to be guillotined. I signed his pardon myself!" tache and slanting eyes more like a venerable Chinese idol than ever...
...book that was keeping him alive, but another book by Georges Clémenceau appeared on U. S. bookstalls last week.** In two ponderous volumes the Tiger agilely avoids autobiography, memoirs, history; explains at great length his carefully reasoned atheism under such headings as: Abstraction; Myths; Religious Bargains and Their Results; Philosophic Doubt; Diffusion; Cosmogonies; Cosmology...
...book rights. First U. S. publisher to discover that the Tiger would write his memoirs was astute Albert Boni of Albert Charles Boni, Inc. From Paris last spring he went out to see the old gentleman. He learned that the best offer Clémenceau had had for world rights on the book was 25,000 francs ($1,000), from a French publisher. Publisher Boni offered $25,000. Amazed, delighted, M. Clémenceau struck the bargain then and there. But Publisher Boni had no check with him. When he returned, the Tiger was reserved, apologetic-and equipped with...