Word: roi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Action Francaise, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment by the Paris Court of Appeals for having incited young Royalists to administer castor oil to Socialist Deputies Maurice Viollette, Marc Sagnier and Marius Moutet. Last June M. Maurras was sentenced together with three members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers-a Royalist organization) to four months' imprisonment. Although he was not implicated in the original charge he came forward and took the blame for the assaults. In the Appeal trial he again assumed the fullest responsibility for everything that had happened, and told the Court that...
...Liberté produced a picture of the mother* of the murdered man kneeling at a church altar while his slayer joyously quaffed champagne in a Montmartre cafe. It added: "Yesterday's verdict did more to promote Facism in France than twenty years' work of the Camelots du Roi...
...jury which in a few minutes did more for Royalism than have the Camelots du Roi in 20 years...
Three young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers) were sentenced with Maurras to terms of imprisonment. It was when they were arrested that Maurras came forward and said that he must be tried with them as he had given the order for and organized the attacks...
Camelots du Roi. The French do not consider them a joke...