Show first frenceh president to lo smoke the parisian journals are commenting on the tact fact that president felix faure was seen the other evening smoking a cigarette at a garden party in the champs it Is IE said that he Is the forat french president to smoke it Is recalled that SI 1 I tillers not only did not smoke but in appointing his military of ficiala took care that the ordnance officer should be a captain TI was a stranger to the use of tobacco marshal macmahon used to smoke but he gave up the habit after passing through a severe illness and when he was president he was wag never known to smoke M jules grevy used to bo be an inveterate smoker but he ceased to use the weed when he found he be was losing his memory M sadi carnot never smoked and his decre secretaries abstained at the elysee at least M perler perier used to smoke but only a little and not at all after he became president it is now hinted that M faure does not only burn cigarettes in public but loves lovei in private a pipe the present of a Ru russian grand duke |