OUR PARIS LETTER

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 17

OUR PARIS LETTER

FRENCH WAR LEADERS

BURIAL NEAR NAPOLEON'S

TOMB

A MILITARY PANTHEON

(From "The Post's" Representative.) . . " PARIS, 27th April.

France's great.war leaders are to be buried in future round-Napoleon's tomb in the Invalides Church of St. Louis. A Bill to this effect is at present being passed through the Trench Parliament, and arrangements are being made for the inhumation of the remains of six-j teen great French war leaders to take place on-14th July. Marshal Maunorry, who was one of the great generals at the first Battle of the Marne, General Grossetti, of the Yser, General Humbert, of Verdun, General Mangin, the famous leader of many desperate attacks throughout the war, General Laureza, the hero of the Battle of Guise in 1914, and Generals Maistre, Dubois, Buat, Koques, Mau cl'huy, Putz, Mitry, Bois-Soudy, Gerard, and Langle de Cary, all of them illustrious on many-fields of battle, will lie in their appointed places 'around the greatest of French generals, the Emperor Napoleon. When these famous generals have occupied their tombs, there will still be left room for twentyfive other military chiefs. LOUVRE FUNERAL CEREMONY. An impressive ceremony took place iv the Louvre Museum yesterday morning in connection with the funeral of M. Georges -Beuedite,' the late curator of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, who died in -March of last year at Luxor. The remains, which recently arrived in Paris, prior to being, carried to their last resting-place at Bourg-ra-Beine, lay for soriie time in the Egyptian Hall of' the museum, amid antique statues of gods and goddesses and kings. A large number of niourners attended, including nearly everybody of note in [the world of arehoelogy in Paris. M. Herriot, Minister of Education, and M. Fakri Pasha, Egyptian"- Minister in Paris, were' also- present. Several brief speeches were made, after which a funeral service was-held ;in the Church of Saint-Germain' I'Auxerrbis, nearby.

"MILDIOTT" AND "MILLE." ' Continuing their labours on the French language in view of the next' revised edition of their dictionary, the lexicographers of the French Academyhave decided that the word "mildow," which is generally spelt as, in English, shall henceforth be written "hiildiou." It is worth noting'also that while the term "grape mildew" is current in English, the Academicians, in their definition of "niildiou," point out that it is the vine leaf and: not the grape that is attacked by the parasite fungus. The Academicians have also ruled •that the numeral word "mille," used adjectively, may .cither- be written "inille" or "mil." NEW GARB FOE MEN. Several leading artists, including MM. Abel Faivre, Cappielle,- MalletStevens, and Angel Zanaga, will contribute to a small exhibition of designs for masculine garb, to 'be opened in Paris. They are working to the following formula: "Suppose that all your clothes were accidentally burnt, and you were so upset that you could not clearly remember what they were ;like. This being understood; dsisigii any costume which you' would.be willing to wear." This effort will form.a feature in the campaign against trousers, and when the artists' creations have been duly discussed the tailors will no doubt set to work. The new suits—assuming, of course, that a sufficient number of Parisians have sufficient courage to wear them in. •public—should make their appearance at Longchamps races at the height of the Paris season and stand the fire of masculine sand feminine criticism. . NEWSPAPER CURIOS.

Some remarkable relics will figure in the Press Exhibition, which is to be opened by the President of the Republic on Friday at tho official residence of the President of the Chamber of Deputies. On this occasion the President, who, like most French public men, is an-ox-journalist, will be shown receipts signed by himself in the far-off days when he did not disdain to accept 100 francs for an article. The National Library has lent some copies of newspapers of the Revolution, including Marat's "L'Ami dv Peuplc" and Cainille Desmoulins's' "Lo Mcrcurc Galant." The "Figaro" is showing a number, printed in 1871, containing the text of a letter from Bismarck to his wife. The "Illustration" lends the contract under which Edmond Rostand was to receive 300,000 francs for his rights in- connection with "Chantecler." Another curiosity is a tiny printed sheet,.no.bigger than copy-book size, the.'.'Petit Avcnois.' It'was produced on 11th November, 1918, just an hour after the departure of the Germans from Avesnes. , .

THE ARMISTICE CAR.

Preparations are being .made at the Invahdcs for the removal of the historic railway dining-car in; which the Armistice was 'signed on Hth November, 1918. The car is to be taken to the glade in the forest of Compiegrie, where tho! signature took place, a wealthy American having provided the funds for building a permanent shelter, thus saving the relic from the effects of exposure to the weather. The doorway of the Invalides, which had to be widened to admit the car, is now undergoing the same process to let it out. Bails will be laid down between tho doorway aild the outer gate, where next Saturday the car will be hoisted on a special truck and put on the railway at the Pont :de 1 'Alma, after which it will make its last journey on rails to its final resting-place.

DECORATION FOR "COCO." For the first time, a French clown has been decorated. Coco, of the Cirque de Paris, -whoso real name is Kaoul Jouin has been awarded the palines academiques, and is now entitled to wear a purple ribbon in his buttonhole. Coco was born at the Nouveaux Cirque, and made his debut at the Hippodrome in the Champ do Mars at the ago of nine, though not as a clown. He developed into an accomplished arid plucky rider and earned fame by jumping on horseback into a pool from, a height" of 30 feet. Later he made the tour of Europe with Bob O'Connor, the clown, who, in spite of his name, was as thorough a Parisian as Coco. During the war Coco served first in the heavy cavalry and then in the light infantry. His services as an entertainer at the rest camps and hospitals were often in request, and they alone are quite sufficient to justify the distinction now accorded to him.