Word: royaliste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
Thus 28 rueful French deputies discovered that Poldavia and the Poldavians, their Foreign Minister and embossed stationery, were just another hoax of Royalist Daudet and his followers, the Camelots du Roi ("hawkers of the King"). Their object again was to prove that all Republicans are either imbeciles or ignoramuses...
...Greek, Turkish. Some-times they adopted and altered slightly alien rituals to make their gospel first familiar, then embraced. In Jerusalem they erected the Hôtelrie de Notre Dame de France. Here in 1893 was held a Eucharistic Congress. In 1900, republican France accused the Assumptionist Fathers of royalist intrigues. Their schools were closed, their activities halted. They fled to Italy, Belgium. England, the U. S. Thus it came to pass that their little college in Worcester, Mass., was founded...
...relative of Emile Combes, lost his head utterly. Drawing his revolver he trained it on the clerical iconoclast with the sledge hammer, pulled trigger, shot the youth dead. Cooler policemen rounded up the tattered mob men and then discovered to their horror that they were disguised Royalist followers of famed Leon Daudet, son of the great novelist Alphonse Daudet, stubborn and wrongheaded champion of Roman Catholicism and the Royal House of France. The Pope has excommunicated Leon Daudet and his followers (TIME, April 9). Their cause is irretrievably lost on all counts; but still they struggle quixotically...
...have no complaint with Mr. Meletakos for wanting news of Greece, but I am sick of hearing "foreigners," residing in this "Land of the Free," "bleat" about being a Royalist, and "blah, blah," about "fighting for the Royalist Flag any old time...