FRANCE: Boutonnier

Bald-headed Raymond Poincare's bristling white moustache and beard parted in a great smile last week as he moved about his country home Le Clos at Sampigny in the Department of the Meuse. For a long while he had been ill, but this, this news from Paris, was enough to make any man well! He had achieved the ambition of his lifetime, which was not to be called M. le President de Republique (as he had been), nor M. le President de Conseil (he had been that, also),...

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