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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 as 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 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 Poincare, Paul Deschane is entitled to
uniform. They are the only two presidents who
have had right to any official toggery since Mar
shall MacMahon. True, the uniform of President
Deschane is not military one but is the distinct
i've garb of the Forty Immortals of the Academy
of France. It Is of dark green cloth adorned
with green silk embroidery, trousers Of the same
material, similarly embroidered, and finished with
a cooked hat and sword.
It is a rather attractive uniform, especially
when worn by man with any pretensions to good
looks and elegance. 1t was devised by the first Ma
poleon at Moscow for the Academicians. Its
sonlbre unobtrusive character, devoid Of all gold
lace and suggestive only OF emnence In the arts
and sciences, carries with 1t distinction that is
peculiarly in keeping with the role Of chief mag
istrate Of republic such as France.
The question of q uniform for the chief mag
frequently come up for discussion during the half
century of existence of the present republic.
Adophe Theirs, who was a dwarf, barely five feet
high, with a terribly squeaky treble voice. was
only dissuaded with difficulty from DOMINIC the
gold embroidered, gold epauletted 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
phenomenally diminutive 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 or his state visit
TO Petrograd by the fact becoming known and
being treated with much ridicule by the Partisan
press. So he had to content himself like all his
predecessors save MacMahon, with evening dress
as his official garb.
While everybody will be disposed to congratu-
late Paul Deschanel on having attained as presi-
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
Iect with which the wives of the chief magistrate
were formerly treated has been remedied, yet the
life of the mistress of Eysee is far from agree
able.
There is not single one of the nine women
who nave lived there during the last fifty years
in the role of Madame la Presidente' who has