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There is a kind of human happening, ridiculous and yet sublime, which occurs in France alone. Of this sort was the taking into custody last week by some 3,000 police, soldiers and firemen, of famed Royalist editor Léon Daudet who had barricaded himself in his office to resist arrest (TlME, June 13, 20), and was guarded by 980 stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. The hour was 7 a. m As the Prefect of the Paris police, M. Jean Chiappe, marshaled his forces, tout Paris knew that Premier Raymond Poincaré...
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