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...going to die, Monsieur le Ministre" he cried. "I am condemned. My election found me in a surgical clinic ... I am dying because of the German army. I would not want my sons or my grandsons to be enlisted alongside the tyrants and executioners of their father ... I have fulfilled my mission. I had promised my comrades to do it. I am happy that destiny today should have enabled me to replace the force which I lack with the energy to come and cry to you: Beware of Germany! Beware of Germany...
...minor players), take my advice and go home after the second act. Act Three is terrible. The "action" takes place in Maxim's ritzy restaurant and attempts to give the weary audience (the show lasts until 11:30) a picture of Parisian night-life. The plot stands still while Monsieur Lebon, in his own inimitable fashion, emasculates four songs. Then there are a couple of dance sequences, a comedy skit, and at long last the thing is over. If Lehar were alive and saw this act, he would wish he were dead...
Just as he had been forced to do so many times before (ten), the President sent out summonses for les pressentis-the politicians who, theoretically, are eligible to form a new cabinet. First, by custom, came the representative of the party which brought down the government, the Socialists. Would Monsieur Christian Pineau care to try? No thanks, replied Monsieur Pineau. One by one came les pressentis from the other parties: General de Gaulle's R.P.F., the Independents, the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist, but right-wing...
Gloves for the Host. Clément's downfall carried his family with him. The French government fired all provincial executioners and appointed a single Monsieur de Paris to perform the function. In 1879 the honor fell to one Louis Deibier, heir of a long line of Breton headsmen. Deibler was succeeded by his son Anatole, who ruled the guillotine with honor until 1939. He was succeeded by his nephew, Jules Henri Desfourneaux...
...pointed hood, a belt of leather. What end was he seeking? I wondered. The austere grandeur of his habit, of that belt which hung from his waist, somehow entangled my heart in a way that was incurable." In 1917 she was admitted to the Benedictines of the Rue Monsieur...