THE LION OF FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 177, 22 April 1919, Page 2

THE LION OF FRANCE

M. CLEMENCEAU.

Even more than tho Congress, the attempt on the lifo of M. Cleinenceau agitates the conversations of Paris,' slues the Paris correspondent of "The Queen." But what is tho use of tolling you what wo say By tlio time this'..paper .is printed I shall be wiso or foolish-after the event. Whatever happens, tho salient tiling is.the cheerful courage of tho vie--j f.iin. "Co n'est rien" ho said—"lt's .nothing"—when the volley of balls struck him. He had already marked the man. "Look at that loafer," lie -had said tg one of his companions; "that's a real had type. .. ." M. Clemeneeau is here the idol of the upper and middle classes, lie used to lie haled in tho camps of Labour. But his conduct of the war, his courage, his wily.liis capacity for enlarging his point of view, and finally this attempt on his life,'have done much to. awaken respect, tolerant- amusement,, admiration, even loyalty. Tho Premier is a very brilliant talker'and impervious to fear-'aud, from tho days of Cato, "rem militarcm et arguti loqui" have been dear to tho Gallic mind: JI. Clemeneeau has "them both. The cither day, ivjiou Sccur Theoncse (the Alsatian nun, who nurses him in all his accidents and illnesses) was dressing his wounds, she said in a meaning voice: "Once more, 11. ■C'lom'enceau, God has spared you!" "Ah, well (he replied), you know He nods sometimes" —"II se :iuet parfois le doigt dans Tocil"). On another occasion, when she pressed him earnestly to soiul for a priest-'and make.his peace with tho Church, lie did not nnswov at the moment, but tho next morning he said: 'I havo had an. extraordinary dream,, ilia ?oeur! I thought that I had died. And there at the Gale of Paradise stood the Saint, with the keys. 'All, M. Clemeneeau,' ho said,, 'delighted to pco you Como in I. Come in! .Tust give me your confessor's certificate!' _ "'My billet de confession? Haven t such a thing.' . ' " 'All, that's serious. ,1 m -afraid _it s absolutely impossible to let you in without it.' , , , "Now, Paradise . looked charming through the railings, aud St. Peter most pleasant. 'Paris rniit bicn line messe, said Henry IV. Aud I (conlinucd M. Clemeneeau) inclined to this opinion. 1 turned to tho Saint and said, in a tentative voice: 'I suppose there would, be no use in asking to see u clergyman now."Certainly! Certainly!' answered baint Peter. "J.'lieie need be no difficultyabout that in a'case like the present; alUiou»h, of- course, it is against the rules. °I will «o and .fetch one at once. "He was away a long lime, a very 10-i" time, so long a time that words almost roso to my lips which must irrevocably have, wrecked my. chance of " Paradise. But just then tho Saint returned. unaccompanied. An amiable lonfusion overspread his ingenuous countenance. . . , , ' "Sorry to have kept yon waiting, he bean. 'Well—l. suppose I must let you | i„° I have ransacked Paradise highaml I low ami have not come across a single | dorgyinan.'"

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