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...lawmakers of an infirm Third Republic in 1886 were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever...
Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...
...date has employed about 500 watercolorists and draftsmen in digging up old wood carving, weathervanes, costumes, toys, needlework, china, and other craft objects of which more than 8,000 renderings, of marvelous exactitude, have already been made. This compilation is to U. S. design what the Code Napoléon was to French...
...competition for a figure to represent the Republic. Ten were submitted and Sculptor Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There she stayed for 28 years. With the Third Republic firmly established, Marianne was hauled out for the Exposition of 1878. At the close of the Exposition...