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Show FRENCH PRESIDENT RESIGNS. State of Health Given as Reason for Laying Down Burden. Paris. The resignation of Paul Des-cbanel Des-cbanel as president of France, which lie handed to Premier Millerand at Uamboulllet last week, was read simultaneously sim-ultaneously in the senate and chamber of deputies when those bodies reconvened recon-vened Tuesday. ".My state of health," wrote M. Des-chanel Des-chanel in his letter, "no longer permits me to assume the high functions with which your confidence Invested me upon the occasion of the session of the national assembly on January 17 last." |