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Show The French Royalist Who was Taken to Jail for Shouting "Vive le Roi" By AUBREY BOYD, in The Argonaut. SreuiiH The French royalist, who was arrested a few days ago in Paris for shouting "Vive lo Hoi" at M. Briand on the hitter's return from Washington, Wash-ington, seems to be regarded by many Americans as an unaccountable lunatic. lun-atic. The idea of setting up a king at this date over tho mother of republics re-publics evidently strikes tho average democratic American as a fantasy too remote for serious thought. Why, is not very clear.. One reason may be that our popular fiction has inclined us to look on exiled kings and pretenders as faded relics laid up in lavender, or as quaint harlequin shadows shad-ows of the dead and dying vanities of yesteryear. But such a conception is of course very far from the truth. Readers of history need no reminder that the king "takes an unconscionable time in dying" certainly longer than tho few years that separate Franco from monarchy. And they will see nothing extravagant in the statement that monarchy is a very lively factor in the politics of the modern French republic. re-public. On the face of things, it is evident that the French authorities do not consider a royalist banner cry amusing, or they would not havo arrested ar-rested the gentleman who greeted M. Briand in this odd way. In a safe-ly-estnblished republic, people aro not arrested for shouting "Ixmg Live the King." |