FRANCE: Clemenceau's Klotz

Luxurious and very exclusive is a certain private sanitarium near Malmaison to which the great of France are discreetly taken when they grow not quite bright.

There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France...

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