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...something must be done. It was decided to invite M. Daudet to jail. He was so informed two years ago, but the R. S. P. V. on the card brought forth from M. Daudet a polite regret. He, no doubt, "regretted that he was unable to accept Monsieur Le Prefect's kind invitation", and perhaps even hinted at "a previous engagement...
...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...
...immoral?" but "Is it impolitie?" ask French police of themselves when called upon to act as censors. "It is impolitie," decided the Parisian police last week, when a War film appeared with Germans called "Boches" in several subtitles. "Henceforth," announced the Prefect of Police, "the term 'Boche' will not be tolerated in any stage or screen production shown in Paris, since the expression is one militating against international concord...
...Lambrino screamed, clutched her side. Carol, vexed, rushed to the window, banged it shut and telephoned to the Prefect of Police. He demanded protection against such picketing by his morganatic wife and her son whose legitimacy he does not recognize. Soon two Parisian detectives were patrolling Carol's yard. When little Mircea came next day with his mother and shouted "Papa! Papa!" from the gate, the detectives told him to move...
Laughing, eager, the crowd surged forward, everyone anxious to be among the first to tread the final section of the boulevard begun under Napoleon III by his great Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, just 70 years ago. The new sector, only a few dozen yards long, at last connects the Boulevard Haussmann with the Grands Boulevards, and makes a single magnificent thoroughfare, stretching continuously from the Place de la République to the Place de 1'Etoile...