Trotting, which used to hold quite fan inferior place in the sporting events in the Paris di trict, is assuming much greater prominence. In pre-war days, meetings were usually held at Vin-connes on Friday; and they came to be known as the "butchers' races," because they wore held on what was then the butchers' half-holiday because many butchers were terested in this from of sport and kept trotters. During the last two or three years, trotting has come to attract @ very large following, and its Sunday crowds are beginning to compare with those at Long-champs and Auteuil, Last Sunday Desai at Sa <Visounes mutuel amounted to Frs. 200,000, and the foresight of the racecourse owners, who invested a very large sum in improvements after the war, has been abundantly proved. is to be celebrated next month, ts still a very "good seller." Charles Perrault, the brother of the architect who designed the solemn seven" teenth-century frontage of the Louvre, was a high State official who drew up all.sorts of important documents and reports and merely" gave part of his leisure to compose ing the fairy tales which have rose cued his name from oblivion, AB for Jules Verne, who anticipated: many niodern inventions by purely imaginati¥e and unscientific proces~ ses, he was a penceable French bour—geois without the slightest teste for the adventures in which he involved: his characters. At one time ho owned a small yacht in which ho sailed along the corists of Normandy, England, Spain, Morocco, and Alger fu, and he made a trip to America in the Great Eastern, the forerunner of the huge Atlantic liners of time, but this was the extent of his travelling, He spent the last twenty years of his life at Amiens and never appeared to realize that his name was known all over the world. In one of his books he gives the follow. ing description of n schoolboy whom ho knew at Nantes and who has since made a certain amount of noise in the world:—
"Ho in very Intelligent industrious, and tr gene ina clan but a ood, at repartee, "obliging post {sublet in bold Sind enterprise hea te ye lise
figured, aptlier care lea about his drear in "short, ery Prenehe and giigerent from hie" Bogle The school boy thus depicted now M, Aristide Briand, Minis for Foreign Affairs,
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