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Show ETIQUETTE AS SEENJNFRANCE Official Title and Procedure Decided by Chief of the Protocol. HIS POST DIFFICULT Most Punctilious Observance of the Forms of Address Is Demanded. Paris, Nov 15 Official etiquette Is observed as punctiliously In republl can France as In the court or the must RDBtfiute monarch in Europe and the statesman who is the supreme su-preme authority on all questions of so lal and official procedure finds his post most difficult He is called the Chief of the Protocol, and the lasl Incumbent, M Moilard. has Just re signed to, become French minister to the court of Luxembourg Since ho has been In the "Protocol M Moilard has become the most decorated man in Europe, hut ever ribbon and Btar he wears has been justly earned The protocol rules official proted ure In the most diverse circumstances receptions, official banquets, pres entations to the president, Inaugurations, Inaugura-tions, official visit3 and last but not least, letter writing. To aold mistakes mis-takes the army and navy have sup pressed all forms of salutation at the end of letters But even so the practice is not uniform, in the army one sas My general. my colonel, etc.. while In the navy, admiral, captain, cap-tain, etc suffice Before the separation sepa-ration of church and state In France the most delicate problem which ever confronted the Chief of the Protocol was to decide the precedence of the Papal nuncio and the Cardinal Archbishop Arch-bishop of Paris The problem was never solved the difficulty being avol-I avol-I ded by never Inviting both prelate to the same function At the foreign office the greatest importance is attached to the episml j iMvim-iM in u pampniet punnsn led on this subject everything is pro BjVlded for the size and quality of th .letter paper, which must be gilt-edged 1 1 for sovereigns, ambassadors and mm I latere of foreign affairs the widti of the margin the subscription, the heading, the Final formulae nd thr 'titles all are strictly regulated. A;i ambassador untitled, is addressed as I Mr Ambassador;" if titled, as 'Mar quls" or ' f ount ' or "Your Highness. ' as the case may bt- A minister plen ipotentlary does not get his title except ex-cept in the subscription at the bottom bot-tom of the firs' page and on the en velope, to which Is added, after the I titles, one, two or three, "etc ". accord I ing to h!s rank An ambassador is 1 entitled to three "eti s " At the II end of a letter an ambassador Is ask ed to accept the "assurances" and not the "assurance' of the foreign minister's min-ister's "very high consideration, while diplomats of lesser degree re I celve either "the most distinguished " "the er distinguished," or merely, the distinguished" consideration of the minister, according to their rank. Clock Phonograph. I Paris, Nov 15. A country clockma-ker clockma-ker has constructed a clock In which a phonograph is substituted for the gOUg Instead of Mrlklng the hours It repeats them in a loud voice The inventor got the Idea during a journey jour-ney in Spain, where he heard the se-reno se-reno or night watchman calling the hours In the street. It la proposed to extend the Idea b fitting public clocks with Inrg" phonographs, which, r.rter ar.nounc Ing the hour, would repeat In stentorian sten-torian tones some appropriate prov I erb or w ise suylng For example, early In the morning the clock would announce, "Six o'clock. Fortune be longs to the early rlsr " At noon 'Fat to live, not live to eat Remember Remem-ber that alcohol Is a slow poison w hich leads to sickness, madness and an early grave." The clerk phono graph could also br used for making important official announccaients. Paris, Nov 15. One of the most famous works of the great French painter. Jasques David has been miss I Ing for nearly a hundred years, and I the problem of Its w hereabouts is an artistic mysterv which has appeale 1 to the imagination of many well known members o'- the Paris art world The picture is now believed to have been I traced to the old chateau of Saint Fargeau in the Nievres, According Accord-ing to this story the paln'lng was placed in an oak box and sealed up I In one of the chateau's walls. But not even the present owner of the I chateau M Annlson du Perron, haB I the slightest clue as to Just where It may be. Hi The picture represents Michel Lpe 1 letler, Ctfunt Saint-Fargeau. as he lav on the pedestal of the btatue of tuls XVI the day before the exe- ution of that doomed monarch Saint I Fargeau was a royalist deputy to the slates general but afterwards went over to the revolution and voted the death of Louis XVI He was assassinated assas-sinated tne day before louls XVI. s execution bj a royalist man at arms Saint Fargeau's dead body, nade, and covered with garlands of oak leaves was exposed for four days on the ped estal from which the statue of louis XVI had been thrown down. The picture wag originally placed In the hull of dehateB of the cons en tlon. It was given back to the artist nfter the terror and' Is believed to have later passed through the hands of M David's son to one of the heirs of Saint Fargeau, the Marquise de Mortfontalne The marquise, accord ing to the story, signed an agreement not to destroj the picture. She had, however, remained faithful to the royalist cause and to hide the pic ture from her revolutionary falher she concealed it as described, in the well of the chateau and died without revealing re-vealing its whereabouts. |