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Show TREATS VISIT WITH HUMOR. Caricaturist Series on Loubet's Trip to England. Caran D'Ache, perhaps tho first of French caricaturists, treats tho visit of Loubet to England as pure persiflage. persi-flage. In a series of four cartoons ho represents Franco and England as the two high contracting pnrties to tho following weighty convention: Franco, on her part, undertakes to speak no moro of Crecy or Aglncourt nnd to remember them ns seldom as possible. In consideration whereof England consents to forget all about Fontcnoy, except as to tho good man-nors man-nors of tho belligerents (a pretty al- , luslon to the "Messieurs les Anglais, flro first"). No moro Is to bo thought I of St. Helena and the French bind themselves by n solf-denylng nrdl- I nanco against chnfllng tho British tourist in comic song, tho tourist reciprocating re-ciprocating by ceasing to present him-solf him-solf at tho theater In summer flannels. |