13 AT TABLE.
An amusing story is told in the French press about a Presidential, dinner given at the Elysee by M. Poincare to a number of his old friends at the Paris Bar. The dinner was to be a perfectly intimate affair, and Mme. Poincare was to be the only lady present. At the last moment M. Millerand, who was Minister of War when M. Poincare was Premier, besides being one of the President’s oldest barrister friends, was prevented" from attending. The President realised’ that he now had only 11 guests and that there would be 13 at the table. He telephoned to all those whom he had invited, asking whether they would mind there being 13, and offering if they did that his wife should not be present. They all replied that the superstition did not trouble them in the slightest and that they would not for the world be deprived of the pleasure of dining with their gracious hostess.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3574, 25 February 1914, Page 8
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16213 AT TABLE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3574, 25 February 1914, Page 8
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