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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1678, 27 April 1904, Page 13

There is in the French Parliament an old deputy of Brittany, universally regarded as a harmless crank, whose speeches alway arouse storms Of laughter. They cousiut,.,,-’(says the “Centwy Magazine”) passionate outbursts of abuse against tihe Republic, and in cries of ‘Wife Ho roi!”—the President dismissing them generally with a shrug of « ihoulders, while the chamber receives with ironical applause. In spite of the foolish and useless role ha plays, the Count Baudry d’Asson has been for nearly thirty years regularly elected,