CLEMENCEAU’S ANCESTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2381, 19 January 1922, Page 4

CLEMENCEAU’S ANCESTRY.

TRACED TO ATTILA INVASION. The mutual admiration which has characterised the relation's of Georges Clemeneeau and Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is at last explained by ethnologists, who have decided that the “Tiger’s” Mongol cast of features is due to the fact that Attila’s Tarar decendants actually advanced as far as the Vendee department of France, where the Clemeneeau family originated. According to historians, one of Attila’s divisions swept westward in search of gold stores which had been told of by mariners who had reached the Spanish coast. When they reached Clemenceau’s country they gave up hope of finding wealth, and attracted by the beauty of the French natives, settled down to become peaceful farmers, naturally marrying, or at least setting up establishments with buxom Vendecans as mates. The theory, moreover, is .adequately supported by the fact that the majority of those who trace their ancestry through the centuries in the same countryside have distinctly Oriental features. M. Clemeneeau himself has at least a dozen doubles who are constantly saluted as the ex-Premier bv visitors.