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Died. Rene Viviani, 62 French Statesman (Premier in 1914), noted attorney, creator with Briand and Millerand in 1904 of the Republican Socialist Party, enlightened and patriotic pacifist, member of the Briand "Sacred Union" the War Cabinet which included every then living former Premier, "as an orator unequaled in the history of France"; of "complete collapse following illness", at the Malmaison Sanitarium...
Lawyers noted with interest that the firm of former Premier Viviani of France appeared on behalf of Mr. Frank J. Gould when he unsuccessfully sought a temporary injunction to restrain his divorced wife. Edith Kelly Gould, from blazoning the Gould name on three-foot posters along Paris boulevards in advertisement of her engagement at a popular music hall. Henri Robert appeared for the defendant...
Noting that he looked fatigued, the judge asked him if he cared to rest for a few moments. Viviani did not reply, but gazed vacantly around the court and suddenly fell over his desk...
...Rene Viviani, former Premier of France, fainted in court from overwork...
...Viviani, lawyer, is 60 years of age. He was Premier when war was declared in August, 1914. A year later he resigned in order to facilitate the formation of a coalition government. Early last year he retired from official life to return to his legal practice. His book, As We See It (an animadversion upon Wilhelm II), was recently published in America, and was reviewed in TIME...