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...this time a busy little old man in a derby hat was rushing officiously about. Craning their necks behind rows of police, onlookers whispered that it was "Monsieur de Paris," traditional name for France's executioner, otherwise Anatole Joseph Deibler, 76.* Immediately another closed van rattled into the square and out jumped the assistant executioners, a priest, and a scowling, square-jawed man in shirtsleeves. Again the whisper went round: "C'est lui! C'est Sarret!" Georges Alexander Sarrejani, alias Sarret, was a Trieste-born Greek who three years ago succeeded the late infamous Henri Desire Landru...
...valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week two men closely connected with the case attempted to commit suicide. Scrabbling through the Stavisky correspondence, investigators discovered a letter to Stavisky with the salutation "Cher Monsieur et Bon Ami-", supposed to have been written by Henri Hurlaux, assistant prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal. White-chinned old Henri Chéron, Minister of Justice, promptly removed good Friend Hurlaux who struck an attitude and attempted to swallow poison. He was rushed to a hospital where...
...first part of the book, Monsieur Sachs has devoted to anecdotes and brief descriptions of the multitude of singular personalities that collected in the Paris of illusion and disillusion after the great war. There appear Erick Satle, that erratic genius of the piano, whose windows were so dirty "the sun never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived...
...picture will be precoded by a short curtain-raiser, "Carcassonne," and a brief explanatory talk in French by Monsieur Henri Supper, an outstanding rugby player of France. Tickets will go on distribution beginning Monday, April 17 in Robinson Hall Annex, Admission is free but by ticket only...
...sporting sons, Harold Stirling and William Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...