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...equally famed Jules Martin Cambon, French Ambassador to Germany (1907-14). He entered the public service as private secretary to Jules Ferry in the Prefecture of the Seine and during the next 10 years he was engaged in administrative work as the Secretary of the Prefecture and then as Prefect, successively, of the Departments of the Aube, Doubs and Nord. After that he joined the Corps Diplomatique. He became French Minister Plenipotentiary to Tunis; Ambassador to Madrid, Constantinople and, in 1898, Ambassador to London, where he lived during the reigns of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V. His task...
...Fiquet, brisk pater familias and councilor of the Folie-Méricourt precinct of the Department of the Seine, suddenly became alarmed lest Parisian schoolchildren had not enough time to consume the formidable French mid-day meal. So he appealed to the Prefect of the Seine, M. Juillard, grizzled repository of safety and welfare...
...paternal prefect immediately ordered a referendum of the worried families of the 260,000 schoolchildren of Paris. The present school-hours are 8:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Was the hour and a half lunch-hour satisfactory to the mama and papa or little Jacques or Suzanne? Where papa was a workman he said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child...
MONSIEUR JONQUELLE-Melville Davisson Post - Appleton ($2.00). Twelve ingenious tales in which the suave M. Jonquelle, Prefect of Police of Paris, deciphers an extraordinary cryptogram, solves an odd murder, outwits the man with steel fingers, finds the secret of the mottled butterfly, etc. A series of admirable detective puzzles, dexterously contrived...
...historic lore of Columbus. Yet it is little known today. In fact, no American vessel had touched the island for 14 years before our coming. Our dory in which we reached shore, was greeted by practically every inhabitant of the little island capital Santa Cruz, lead by the prefect of the town...