Word: royalistic
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...campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies. At the same time, they were able to prove that the able General had served brilliantly and faith fully Republican France. However, there was no sign that the French War Office was taking any notice of the agitation that was shaking its windows...
...Marseillaise sounded the conclusion of the spectacular ceremony; and the procession dispersed as Communists sang the Internationale in an adjoining street and Royalists held a morning ceremony at the grave of Marius Plateau, Royalist slain by Germaine Berthou, the girl anarchist...
...bean geste, Grand Duke Cyril's attitude is distinctly amusing; as a serious movement, it seems wholly devoid of sense. Meanwhile, it must be a source of laughing satisfaction to the Bolsheviki to know that the ranks of the Royalist Russians are so hopelessly split...
Later, M. Maklakov requested the Papal Nuncio. Monsignor Cerretti, to hand over the building to the Bolsheviki. It was believed that the Pope's Ambassador accepted the mission, but the report was unconfirmed. At all events, the royalist Russians removed all their papers and documents to another building before quitting the Embassy...
Jacques Anatole Thibault was born on the Quai Malaquais, brought up on the Quai Voltaire. "No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais." His father was a royalist, a bookseller, a devout Catholic. The father's comrades in the guard of Charles X used to call him "le père France." The name stuck to him and was inherited by the son who has made it famous...