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This poster was placarded throughout Paris, appealing to voters to tear up their ballots and to the Orléanists to desert Philippe, Due d'Orléans, and rally to the standard of Louis, Prince de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XVII...
...Sire," the play by Henri Lavedon, produced by the Cercle Francais yesterday afternoon, revolves around two French types, Roulette, who masquerades as Louis XVII and La Comtesse de Saint-Salbi, an old and emotional lady who always refused to believe that Louis XVII had died in prison and at once is taken in by Roulette's imposition...
...sire! sire! sire! que je suis heureuse! je vous vois! Enfin, je puis saluer Votre Majeste!" The poor, old lady was crazy and had taken him for Louis XVII. The play contains many revolutionary ideas, for 1848 is comparable to 1919 in its political and social unrest. Some have even thought that the play should be slightly expurgated, but fortunately this has not been done...
...Malden Library has just loaned to the Fogg Museum a very distinguished portrait by the famous XVII century Dutch genre painter, Nicolaas Maes, a pupil of Rembrandt. The picture is a valuable addition to the first Loan Exhibition of Dutch Pictures ever held at the Fogg Art Museum and is equal in quality to the Rembrandt and Hals already on exhibition...
...Lecture (in French). "The Present State of the Problem of Evolution." XVII. "Geographical Segregation." Professor Caullery. Nash Lecture Room of University Museum...