| Show government OF FRANCE i interesting information armand balliers Fal liers newly el acted president armand fall ere went through the local schools no credit and was sent up to bario to study law says vance thompson in everybody s A year of jolly idleness in the latin quarter ballel to get him through hia examinations and he went back to the south few years later he wag admitted to ane bir at toulouse but the old fathe predicted he will never amount anything A taw local cases in alil h he pleaded show ed that he had a 1 ind of eloquence and the politicians t ok him up from the tall of th second empire he went steadily up in the republican h cr archy mayor of gerac deputy m r ister senator his advance wis ahei M loubet became president he si to the pre dency of the his entrance to the elysee was tae logical conc lusi n of a career has not been wi h out a kind of plain usefulness this good natured corpulent old man with love r a good dinner and the wine of Lou pillon with his gas con stories a id icid roaring laughter Is a type 0 mich that is good in french public life that 1 ind of a man never ruis the risk of getting himself burned as a martyr or hated as a reformer nd his concessions to political necessity are not liable to be of a bad sort HP brings into politics the same give and take that makes him belot ed by his neighbors downin gascony M fallieres Fall leres lives in house built by hia father the P dressed like a peasant he comes ani goes among his vines his door Is open his table always set it is a large and paerl archal life A cozen or a score of his neighbors ma come casually to the midday meal there is alway room and he re pasts are always ample two or three meats a roat luikey gascon piea and cakes the wine from his vineyard it is life to the nth power of simple nt broad in comfort and good fellowship in paris he lives in much the aam way for ane last seven years ne has inhabited the lux embourg by light of his presidency of the senate any morning of all these years you might have met h m in the streets for he combats his obe sity by long walks at eight clochi it has been hia autom to set out los the luxembourg an umbrella under his arm an old felt hat on his head his antique polka dot scarf floating under his chin at a smart little pace he marched awa to the arc de tri ompha or the pare and back gaail weighing quite as mich as ever and an appetite that promises |
