Mlle. Germaine Berthon, who shot M. Marius Plateau, an editor of L'Action Française, Royalist journal, last January, was put on trial for her life.
The circumstances of the assassination were that she tried to see M. Leon Daudet, the Chief Editor of the paper. He would or could not see her and deputed M. Plateau, one of the leading Royalists, who was possessed of the business and organizing brains of both the paper and the Party, to interview her, which he did. After a brief conversation with her, M. Plateau rose and opened the...
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