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...convention anywhere and tell the strange world whence the wearers hail. Then they issued into the evening streets, reconnoitred in restaurants, newsstands, dance halls, bars. Or they just ambled along the luminous boulevards grinning at one another, at Parisians, at Paris. Without the slightest hesitation, with thrown flowers, "Vive! Vive!" kisses and embraces, Paris grinned back. Unaware that any of their visitors would come so soon, the hosts made their welcome impressive by quiet, small-scale spontaneity...
...until two hours later did Paris learn the news. . . . Even dyspeptics chuckled, and men of spirit openly roared at one another over café tables: "Vive Daudet! Vive l'Audace...
...surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank you, M. Daudet! I salute you!" Soon, one by one, the 980 Royalist youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe...
...Vive le Roi!" answered the young "Camelots," "Vive Daudet! Vive la France...
...sanctity to their persons. It is to be feared that the Prince's informality of costume, unprincely disinterest in Spanish ladies, and undiplomatic refusal to attend a bull-fight may cause Anglo-Spanish relations to become a trifle strained. The kingly office is still a difficult one evidently. "Vive la Republique...