The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1920-04-02
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official honors and prerogatves, are exempt from
the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts of law and
are amenable only to the senate sitting a
high court of Justice On their death the entire
garrison turns out to give them funeral honors
In short the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor,
wherever bestowed upon a Frenchman, carries
with it a pension. 1t will thus be that France
indirectly makes suitable provision both for the
honor and for the maintenance of her former
chief magistrates who are thus preserved from
RELOCATION to the obscurity of ordinary everyday
citizenship
Like Poncare Paul Deschanel is entitled to
uniform. They the only two presidents who
have had right to any official toggery since Mar
shall MacMahon True, the uniform of President
Deschanel is not military one, but is the distinct
i've garb of the Forty Immortals of the Academy
of France 1t is of dark green cloth adorned
with green silk embroidery trousers of the same
material similarly embroidered and finished with
Il cooked hat and sword
II is rather attractive uniform, especially
when worn by man with any pretensions to good
looks and elegance. 1t devised by the first Ma
poleon at Moscow for the Academicans It's
sombre nObtrusive character, devoid of all gold
lace ana suggestive only of eminence in the arts
and sciences carries with it distinction that is
pecuarly in keeping with the role of chief mag
istrate of republic such as France.
The question of a uniform for the chief mag
iStratG OF the nation lnulCalNe vi MS Idilh HAS
Frequently come up for discussion during the half
century Of existence of the present republic.
Adophe THEIRS who was dwarf, barely five feet
high with n terribly squeaky treble voice.
only dissuaded with difficulty from donnng the
gold embroidered, gold epauetted uniform of
marshal of France as supreme chief of the army,
by the representation of intimate friends who
were alive to the extent to which such uniform
would have emphasized in comical manner his
pbenomenollv diminrtiYe stature.
President Grevy was Indifferent to uniforms
and preferred his shirt sleeves But President
Faure who was good deal of coXcomb, went
to the length of having gorgeous uniforms and
costumes designed for him and was only deferred
from having them made to wear on his state visit
10 Petrograd by the fact becoming known and
being treated with much rdicue by the Partisan
press So he had to content himself, like all his
predecessors save MacAlahon, with evening dress
as his official garb.
While everybody will be disposed TO congrau
late Paul Deschanel having attained, as pres
dent of the republic, the highest office in the gift
of his countrymen, there will be many inclined to
accord sympathy to his very charming wife. who
is considerably his junior. While, thanks to the
insistence of Raymond Poincare, the official neg
lect with which the wives of the chief magistrate
were formerly treated has been remedied, yet the
life of the mistress of Elysee is far from agree
able
There Is not Il single one of the nine women
who nave lived there during the last fifty years
in the role of Madame la PreSidente" who has