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...weeks ago General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff, head of all Russian royalist military organizations in Europe, kissed his wife perfunctorily goodbye, put his bowler hat on his head and strolled off down the Rue Rousselet in Paris to attend a staff meeting at the Russian Officers' Club. As instantly and completely as a conjuror's rabbit, he disappeared. An hour later Mme Koutiepoff was in hysterics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Koutiepoff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...juicy a scandal as I'Affaire Koutiepoff could not be laid on the shelf without a sniff and a playful poke from that irrpressible gourmet, M. Léon Daudet, editor of the flamboyant Royalist sheet Action Française. "Mark my words!" he wrote. ''War will come of this in a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Koutiepoff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Henri's father, whom he always disliked and later spoke of usually as "the bastard," was a royalist who escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Fame | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Thousands of Royalists stood massed in the great square before the Gare du Nord, some prosperous, more poor, nearly all bearing bouquets of flowers. Stalwart youths of Les Camelots du Roi, or Royalist League, formed a guard of honor, drawn up in double file, eyes front, facing a lane which extended from the railway platform to a waiting taxicab-a very special cab. With sheepish smiles and shrugs policemen representing the majesty of the French Republic kept at a respectful distance. They would have been mobbed if they had interfered. "Vive la France!" roared the crowd. "La France royale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumphal Return | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

From his mother's hearth Editor Daudet rushed to the grave of his son Philippe- famed as a martyr royalist. Picture postcards of this youth are constantly distributed by L'Action, each boldly imprinted: "Philippe Daudet, born Jan. 7th, 1909, assassinated Nov. 24th, 1923, by the police of the French Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumphal Return | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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