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Show ! Price of Fame High j in French Academy PARIS, April 26. The expense of becoming a member of the French academy, aca-demy, like the prico of everything else in France, has taKen an upward trend Every new member honored by election elec-tion to the academy must provide himself him-self with a regulation uniform of green cloth, with yellow facings. Before the war the outfit represented an expense of 659 francs, two years ago it rose to 1,200 francs and today Henry Bordeaux, Bor-deaux, who is about to be received into the academy, will lrave to' pay 2016 francs for his uniform In addition he must" supply himself with a special hat, sword and sword belt, which have also shown a 'large increase in price. Notwithstanding the expense connected con-nected with membership in this august body, no complaints have been heard from those recently honored. |