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official honors and prerogatives, are exempt from
the Jurisdiction of the ordinary courts of law and
are amenable only to the senate sitting as \
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 1t a pension. 1t will thus be seen that France
Indirectly makes suitable provision both fer the
honor and for the maintenance of her former
chief magistrates, who are thus preserved from
RELOCATION to the obseurity of ordinary everyday
citizenship.
Like Poincare, Paul Deschanel is entitled to a
uniform. They are the only two presidents who
have had a 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
If France 1t 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.
II is a rather attractive uniform especially
when worn by a man with any pretensons to good
Looks and elegance. 1t was devised by the first Ma
poleon at Moscow. for the Academicians. Its
sombre unobtrusive character. devoid of all gold
lace ana suggestive only Of eminence in the arts
and sciences. carries with it distinction that is
peculiarly in keeping with the role Of chief mag
istrate of republic such as France
The question of uniform for the chief mag
.istrate of the nation indicative of his rank has
frequently come up for discussion during the half
century Of existence of the present republic.
Adolphe Theirs. who was a dwarf barely five feet
high. with a terribly squeaky treble voice. was
only dissuaded with difficulty from donning 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 a 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
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 MacAiahon with evening dress
as his official garb.
While everybody will be disposed to ccngratu-
late Paul Deschanel on having attained, as presi-
dent of the republic the highest Office in the gift
Of his countrymen there viii 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 a single of the nine women
who nave lived there during the last fifty years
In the role Of MADAME la Presidente" who has