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Show j DEAN OF FRENCH JOURNALISTS QUITS Henri Rochefoft, veteran polemist and dean of French journalists, has laid aside his pen forever. He is almost eighty-two years old, has been in journalistic harness for half a century, and until the present indisposition has not missed writing an article every day for more than forty years. Even since his eyes began be-gan to fail him, only once has ho missed dictating his daily article. And now the doughty old fighter takes what he believes to be only a temporary rest at the imperative order or-der of his physicians. The paper for which he has written so many palpitating pal-pitating articles announces that no one replaces ' him. It says in effect what Jefferson replied when the French foreign minister welcomed him with the remark: "You replace Dr. Franklin." "No," replied the author au-thor of Jeffersonian simplicity; "no one can replace Dr. Franklin; I merely succeed him." As long as a shadow of hope remains of his reappearance, no one will succeed Henri Rochefort. |