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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 342, 7 November 1879, Page 11

The Panr'ian, an American paper published in Paris, says :— Mr. Duhamel, the private .secretary of Mr. Jules Grevy, has antecedents' that do not satisfy the thorough-bred Republicans. Indeed, people have often expressed surprise that Mr. Grevy should retain Mr. Duhamel in his service. A contemporary has explained the oroblem by informing us that the President of the Republic and Mr. Duhamel are both freemasons, and that the latter has a superior rank as a mason to the former, over whose actions he has been placed as a watch. c