Word: reboux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...course of a charming dissertation on the wines of France, outspoken Gastronome Reboux lately touched on the subject of champagne, France's "Wine of Honor...
Champagne growers, outraged, vowed revenge in the name of France's Wine of Honor. It was hinted by Paris newspapers that M. Reboux had been discharged as political contributor of radical Paris Soir. In their combined majesty and awfulness the Syndicat du commerce des vins de Champagne and the Syndicat général des vignerons de la Champagne brought suit against the brash gastronome. Last fortnight the case was called before the civil tribunal of the Department of the Seine...
Defending his client from the onslaught of the effervescent tycoons was black-gowned Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour, famed lawyer, author of ponderous tomes, former Minister of Labor. But brash M. Reboux did not rely alone on the fame of oratorical Maître Paul-Boncour. Impressed with the formidable forces against him, he appealed for help to the Syndicat des Journalistes, an organization comparable to the U. S. Authors' League...
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