Word: royaliste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strength of the Camelots is computed at 1,500,000? scattered throughout France. In every local arrondissement is a Camelot group, drilled and trained under the guise of "general athletics." The Royalist war chest is said to contain many millions of francs, and more money continues to flow into its coffers. Farmers and peasants are reported to be joining the organization...
...rowdyism of the Royalists met with hostile comment in the Chambre des Députés, where within three months another riotous scene occurred (TIME, March 31). Leon Daudet, leader of the Royalist Party in Paris, editor of l'Action Française, Royalist journal, was assailed on all sides by irate Socialists when he took his seat in the Chamber. It was with difficulty that the ushers and saner deputies were able to prevent grievous bodily harm being done him. Despite Daudet's valiant efforts to fight the entire Chamber single-voiced, he was obliged...
...Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers) are said to number more than 150,000. They were formed to assist the Royalist cause by hawking copies of l'Action Française on the streets. Later on they became an organized body to disseminate Royalist propaganda. Their audacity and hotheadedness is doing much to ruin the cause for which they fight...
...Duchesse d'Uzes, handsome, white-haired, expert huntswoman, ardent Royalist, is the first woman to hold the position of Lieutenant des Loups (Lieutenant of Wolves). Told by M. Chéron, Minister of Agriculture, that if she 'accepted the honor she would have to swear allegiance to the Trench Republic, the Duchess extended her hand...
Georges Taupin, a young man, self-admittedly an anarchist, strode into the office of L' Action Française, Royalist journal, and fired a revolver shot into the ceiling. " Don't be afraid," he cautioned the staff, " I have come from the anarchists to warn you." He was then overpowered and arrested. His action caused a great sensation in Paris, as it was only last January that Germaine Berthon, also an anarchist, killed M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française. She intended to kill Léon Daudet, proprietor of the paper...