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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 6 March 1912, Page 5

In a collection of stories and reminiscences bearing the title of "Modern Paris" (Laurie), Mr. Robert H. Sherard tells about the manager of a scent fac- . Tory at Anvers-sur-Oise, the cloying cdours of whose trade clung about him, an<J made his social life a. misery. His friends chaffed him. His wife left him. Dogs, of whom he was fond, would not stay with him ; whi'e cats, whom he abhorred, sought his company. The villagers called him bv opprobrious names. His approach, they said, was made known bv "the increasing suavity of the atmosphere." At last, tormented beyond endurance bv peasants, who followed after him shouting insults to his fragrance, he turned on his persecutors and fired three shots from a revolver, without, however, injuring anybodv. In France the attempt to kill is legally of equal gravity with actual murder, and is nunishable with death. The man was lodged in traol, but Mr. Sherard made representations on his behalf to the iuge d'instructien - and the nrisoner was let off with a heavv fine for carrying prohibited arms. He returned to the village, and thereafter the neasantrv •''gave him a wide berth. When th<■> emanations of parma vwlets or -lilies of t.ViA vollpy for e "'Hrnrd of hi* coming they straightway fle-d.