Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-12
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
LOVED BECAUSE OF HIS LITTLE
EccENTRIcITIEs.
Special Cablegram to The star.

Special Cablegram TO The star.
PARIS, February II. The French
newspapers appear to take delight
In printing stories about the new pres
ident These stories generally show
him the. typical F'rerchmau of the middle
classes. with plenty of character, of course.
but man who will be loved because OF his
little eccentricties One writer recalls
that just about the time of his election he
cav the present president of France near
the Paiais de Justice examining the old
books on a riverside stall. He had bought
two or three books which were sticking
out of his pocket The reporter went up to
the book seller after NJ. Fallieres had gone
and told him the name of his customer.
"Ah!" he remarked. well 1 hope he won'e
bargain 50 fercely when they raise his sal
airy. He beat me down so on the books that
j am not making more than three pence
profit on the lot
The promotion of N. Fallieres from the
presidency OF the senate to the presidency
OF the Republic of France does mean a
substantial raise In salary. AS president of
the senate he received S20.0G0 year. as
president Of the republic he will get $4,000
a month.
On the other hand many stories of the
ingenious kindness of NJ. Fallieres are
told. He was presiding at banquet at
Agen when piece of money dropped from
his ygaistcoat pocket TO the floor. A neigh
Dor said: IT think you have let fall two
franc piece" But he replied, Let IL be.
That Will be lucky find for the waiter.
and he called to the latter. whispering to
him to look out for a two-franc piece which
he would find somewhere under his seat
On the floor. Toward the end OF the din
ner NJ Fallieres was seen by his neigh
Dor to be feeling with a preoccupied air
in his waistcoat pockets AS lie rose he
looked round, fancied he was not observed.
and gently let two-franc piece slide on
Tie rhsa n
ticed the strange proceedings. asked NJ
Fallieres afterward II he would tell him
what Ii meant. The fact is" Ri. FalliereS
answered. that I remembered that I keep
only coppers in my left-hand pocket. from
which the piece dropped that you supposed
was two francs. whereas 1t must have only
been two sous. So / took out of my right
hand pocket in which l keep only silver
another coin which that time was really n
two-franc piece and dropped 1t for the
waiter to find. l did not want TO disap-
point the man after telling him. you see.
Another Gruesome Search.
After the disinterment of the remains of
Paul Jones from the old Protestant ceme-
terry near Menilmontant another gruesome
search is being made for the body of Du-
guay-Trounin, the privateer of st. Malo'
who died in Paris in the year 1880 He was
buried under a chapel In the old church Of
st. Roche, near the Tuileries. The searches
are being made at the request of Capt. de
Carford retired officer OF the French
navy, who is a descendant OF the corsair,
and of his relative. NJ. Robert Surcouf,
deputy Of st. Malo who directly descends
from another famous rover. The excava-
tors who are making the searches have
found under the church vault with vast
heap of bones. some OF which had been
sent to the catacombs. No traces of Du-
guay-Trounins coffin have as yet been dis
covered, although 1t Is possible that some
OF the bones may have belonged to the
celebrated Frenchmau. The cure of st.
Roche is of the opinion. however, that the
remains were swept away by the terrorists
who plundered the church during the great
revolution.
There is no doubt but that the corsair
was buried under St. Roches after his
death ar-the age of sixty-three. Notice of
the burial appears in the parish register,
the deceased being described as Messire
Rene Trouin, knight and Lord du Quay.
lieutenant general of the naval forces OF
the king and commander of the royal mill
tary order OF st. Louis. The exact spot of
the interment is not known. Capt. Count
de Carford. at whose request the search is
being made. Is anxious to have the BODY
OF his relative placed in the family vault
All of Victor Hugo's manuscripts have
been turned over to the French National
Library. They range from "Odes ct Bal
ladies'" TO The Pape." Among them are
heaps of unfinished poems, fragments OF
plays, titles of tragedies. comedies and
novels, bits OF philosophy and criticism
notes. "reminiscences and political discourses-
The manuscripts are to be used by M. Gus
tav Simon, guardian of the poets daughter.
the imprimerie rationale edition OF Hugo's