Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

down from his window. st should not want to
see civil war started. render myself to
you"
Chiappe took his prisoner along to the Sante
In his private limousine. That marked the
only victory for the government in the Daudet
AFFAIR. The prisoners escape q few days LATER
through o smart ruse Of the Kings Hench.
men, In using the telephone, provoked ridicule
upon the ministries of justice and the interior.
The success Of the peaceful and preventive
methods OF Chiappe for a long time was puz-
zle to one Of his most renowned predecessors.
Louis Lepine, who passed 20 years Of his long
life as project and was known to all France as
"the little man with the big stick" M. Lepine
favored force without stint or limit. He used it
in driving the Apaches from Paris and in
breaking up the Bonnet gang of automobile
bandits, the first of their kind. Two of their
leaders were killed.
Once upon time M. Lepines Office in the
prefecture was invaded by enraged post Office
strikers, and he was dashed over the head. On
another occasion he saw M. Loubet, then Presi-
dent Of France, hit over the head with a cane
at the LongchampS race course riots. He was
pitiless In REFRESHING the elements responsible
for these disorders, but he did not arrest them
beforehand, as Chiappe does.
Nowadays M. Lepine who is 80, often calls at
Chiappe's office for chat He was asked one
day what he thought of the new policy.
"Autres temps autres moeurs." was his
philosophic reply.
CHAPPE was born in Ajaccio on May 8,
1878, and, like so many Corsicans his first
position when he came to Paris as young man
was connected with the police. He entered the
ministry Of the interior a minor secretary,
and he has been with the police ever since. He
was successfully secretary of the direction OF
the penal administration, chief of cabinet to
the general secretary of the ministry and chief
OF cabinet to Ministers BRAND, KlotZ and Rene
Renault. Then he became controller of the
Surete Generate and rose to be its director in
1924. The following year he was appointed
general secretary to the minister of the interior.
Already q man of considerable wealth, M.
Chiappe married an heireSs, Mile. Marcelle de
Villers They own the Chateau de Villers, at
Beauvias, and have q racing stable there. But
Chiappe seldom sees his country home, now
that he IS project and his visits to the race
courses have become more and more infrequent.
Like Napoleon, the project has been too busy
ever to 60 home on a visit to Corsica. The
ChiappeS were prominent family on that is
land even In Bonaparte's day. Indeed, the
projects admirers like to think some of his
virtues were inherited from old Ange Chiappe,
who helped Napoleon financially when Bona.
parte was student. Later Ange Chiappe offered
shelter to the victims of Napoleonic prescrip-
tions, and refused to accept presents, favors or
honors from the Emperor, although he gave his
nephew to the cause at Waterloo.
Jean Chiappe, too, has always been credited
with spurning opportunities of advancement
that were not proffered by true friends or well
wishers. There is saying in Paris that he is
haunted by the 150-year-old souvenir of Ange
Chiappe. Perhaps, recalling CIenaenceaus fare.
well tribute, the project sometimes wonders
whether Napoleon, there on st. Helena, ever
wished he could have sent for old Ange Chiappe
that he might have shaken the hand Of an
honest man before he passed away.