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Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head. They were bound for the little village of Le Mas-Rillier, which has sunned itself for 2,000 years on a mountain top near Lyons, overlooking the Rhone Valley. The heads were those of a Virgin and Child. Joined to concrete bodies, they will complete the largest statue in the world...
...brought to bear on President Lebrun. who some time ago expressed his reluctance to run for a second seven-year term. This week, just four days before the election, he bucked up enough to announce that he would run again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure. I don't intend to clear out for the pleasure of others...
Fortunately the No. 1 French Mayor, famed Edouard Herriot of Lyon (220 miles up the Rhone above Marseille), was attending the Radical Socialist Party Congress. Huge Mayor-and-former-Premier Herriot, who looks as though fit to burst with the famed cuisine of Lyon, promptly rang up his city hall, ordered: "Put some of our Lyon fire engines on railway flatcars and rush them here...
...craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome of Caligula, only a threat of death from the Palace Guard made Claudius choose the unwanted post of Emperor. He comforted himself...
...army and handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France. He heard things last week to make them curl...