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...Stavisky, because another section believed that he collected a fat fortune in office by subtly blackmailing crooked politicians. But even without these groups smiling Prefect Chiappe still had enormous personal popularity throughout Paris. No sooner was his removal announced than roars for his restoration were heard. Rioting crowds interlarded "Vive Chiappe!" with cries of "Voleurs!" "Assassins!", saved their most savage attacks, their deadliest brickbats for the blue-clad Garde Mobile, a section of the French constabulary that was invented and organized by Prefect Chiappe himself...
Jean III. Scrawls of VIVE LE ROI! on walls and sidewalks and roaring young Royalists swinging loaded canes were not lost upon a very tall, very dignified exile in Belgium. Two days after the bloodiest fighting the Royalist newspaper Action Française published a manifesto that had come by special courier from Brussels...
...Vive la France...
...Vive la France...
...Gauthier to the restaurant in order that he might assure her that he had not been in the establishment when her husband had lost his coat. A typical hot-headed Parisian woman, Mme, Gauthier babbled about Verdun, la France, the debt. A mob swarmed about Mr. Jones shouting: "Vive la France! A bas les etrangers!" Before Henrey Jones could devise a plan to escape the husterical crowd, he found himself accuses of being a spy and hustled off to jail by patriotic gendarmes...