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Show First French President to SnioLe. The Parisian journals are commenting comment-ing on the fact that President Felix Faure was seen the other evening smoking a cigarette at a garden party In the Champs-Elysees. It is said that he is the first French president to smoke. It is recalled that M. Thiers not only did not smoke, but in appointing appoint-ing his military officials took care that the ordnance officer should be a captain was a stranger to the use of tobacco. to-bacco. Marshal MacMahon used, to smoke, but he gave up the habit after passing through a severe illness, and when he was president he was never known to smoke. M. Jules Grevy used to bo an inveterate smoker, but he ceased to use the weed when he found he was losing his memory. M. Sadi-Carnot Sadi-Carnot never smoked, and his secretaries secre-taries abstained at the Elysee, at least. M. Casimlr-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 cig-arettes in public, but loves In private a pipe, the present of a Russian grand duke. |