created by the Auteuil incident has soon died out. When it: was learnt: that an Imperialist baron had attacked the President with a stick' and that nearly two hundred people had been arrested it, was, not unnaturally concluded that something like 'a revolution or at Toast a coup @étut was in preparation. The fact that three army officers were among, the prisoners tended to give the affair the appearance of 'a military protest against the revision of the Dreyfus case. Asa matter of fact it was nothing more than an outburst of spite on: the' part of the classes against the Representative of the musses. The chief culprit, who has just been sentenced to four imprisonment, declared at his trial"that' he acted under the influence of temporary excitement and that his act~ was quite unpremeditated. Ho also denied that he was connected with apy. political organisation. This did not event the judges (the trial took place before a correctional court - and' consequently without' a jury) from. inflicting -very neatly the. heaviest penalty in their power. No doubt they wore anxious to. escape the fate of the Assizo Court President who lad jut, previously been proceeded against by the Government for°negligenco in. permitting M. Quesnay de Beaurepaire to revile the President of the: Republic in. open: court: Baron de Christiani: will no doubt be pardoned' by M:' Loubet-as soon as tke matter has. blown over.' Nearly all-the other manitestants"' arrested om-the racecourse were released after cooling their Royalist ardour. for'a couple of: days ina "Republican dungeon. Eightweredetaived ¢ la Picquart \d—were sentenced to-day to fines-and serious peticds'of imprisonment.
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