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...Vive le Roi! Some 1,300 girl students were waiting breathlessly in the assembly hall when the school's chaplain sidled up to one of the royal equerries and said, nodding at the guest of honor, "I don't believe that's the King at all." The equerry exploded in indignation. "This," said affronted Majesty itself, "is the first time such a thing has happened to me." He drew himself aside to let his underlings clean up the ugly matter. A second chaplain, however, had turned suspicion into action and rushed to the police station by motorbike...
...Charles Ill's eldest son, Charles Henri, who became the Roi Soleil of the dynasty. Progressive as well as dedicated, he was enthusiastic over a new invention described to him by Drs. Antoine Louis and Joseph Guillotin and on April 25 1792, he tried it out. The Parisian crowds cried, "Bring back the block," but Charles Henri Sanson was well pleased. "Simplicity and absence of noise," he said happily, after the test...
Weekends, the Auriols stay in a secluded, six-room, one-telephone hunting lodge in the forest at Marly-le-Roi, near Versailles. But every August, for a real vacation, they go back to the rose-walled house in Muret, close by the swift-flowing Louge. This is the France which Vincent Auriol, with a Frenchman's passion for the soil, loves best...
...Paris, President Vincent Aurlol stocked his pantry with almond milk and other dainties to welcome a visitor, thorny, willful Sidi Mohamed Ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco. After a dervish whirl of partygoing, the Sultan doffed his white burnoose, slipped into hunting knickers for a shooting party at Marly-le-Roi where he bagged 76 pheasants, ten hares, two partridges...