Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investiture. During the afternoon which followed the death of Ferdinand, a smart cavalcade of the Household Cavalry trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced...
...France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank you, M. Daudet! I salute you!" Soon, one by one, the 980 Royalist youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe in a limousine. They went first to Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife (who is also his cousin) then motored to the Prison Santé. There Mme. Daudet made arrangements to have her husband supplied with his favorite viands from a neighboring restaurant; and brought him, later...
...periodic intervals for the past two years, the police have repeated their invitation, indeed, M. Daudet may be said to have a standing invitation with the Prefect. But each time M. Daudet has declined, at first politely, but with increasing firmness...
During the last week, the police decided that something really must be done. Instead of the usual printed card, the host himself called, M. Daudet was adamant; once and for all time, he did not intend to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's invitation. M. Le Prefect hinteu vaguely at arrest, bowed and retired. Now French policemen don't often speak of such things. M. Daudet was warned, and placed bob wire about his building, bolted doors and windows, and waited, first hinting to his friends and the police that he would die before he stooped to the Prefect's compulsory...
Contrast this with American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear...