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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 45, 10 November 1904, Page 6

President Loubet has been visiting his old home at Montehmar. lie was received at the railway station (say the French newspapers) by several functionaries, and Tie subsequently took a drive in semi-state with one of his children. Much less ceremonious was the charming scene described by the Rev. A. N. pooper, the 'walking parson.' Mr. Cooper, in , one of his rambles, found himself at Montehmar, and, looking out of the window of his inn in the early morning, he saw the President escorting his old mother to t^lie market-place, -where she continued to sell farm produce, even though her son had become Chief Magistrate of the Republic. She drove up in a market cart, which was duly unloaded. Then the President gave her his arm, escorted her to her chair, and opened the great umbrella under which she sat. No functionaries were in attendance, and the rest of the market people showed 'no signs of regarding the incident as anything remarkable. At the end M. Loubet gravely saluted his mother, and went off to read State papers, while she remained to sell cabbages.