However violent and distrustful Clemenceau was of men, he was al ways gallant and considerate to-/ward women, according to Madame Perrenoud, the only woman secretary the Tiger ever had.
In an interview with the United Press, Madame Perrenoud explained that due to Clemencean's regular secretary having to perform his military service, she was called to substitute. It was during the time: he was completing his philosophical ]work, "An Soir de la Pensee," and. Tater' when ho was reading' the proofs of his monumental war book, "The Grandeur and Misory of tory."
"The morning I was summoned to go to Clemenceat's home in the rue! Franklin," said Madame Perrnoud,' Twas warned, above all not to put rouge on my lips, and not to wear high heeled shoes. 'Clemenceau has jo horror of all those things in women,' the voice told me. Moreover, Chad to use a goose quill pen, because the Tiger always hated the [grating of steel pens. I consented to sacrifice these feminine vanities, and went not without trembling to the door of this terror of ministers,' this irascible enemy of govern-
"T was received with Clemenceau I learned of his great heart, his unfailing generosity, and his great re-for humble folks.
"Clemenceau simply could not resist any demand for help, 'The man who had already obtained a thousand francs from Tir, could always get more by relating ple tale} lof need, whether it was to repair a broken boat or to enlarge his farm with an additional' field.
"I remember, he helped people he didn't. know, he has bought. fishing boats, helped farmers, aided struggling' young. husbands, without any thought of recompense, and certainly without thought of electoral sup-
"People were wrong to say that Clemenceau was an _anti-fominisb, In giving women franchise and social liberty, he did fear the influence fon them by the clergy. Accordingly he was against too' much power for women in Catholic countries. The protestant religion he considered more as a philosophy, and he admitted therefore that" universal' suffrage was feasible in Protestant countries.
"Clemenceau always declared: that women were gifted of incontestable talents, though he consistently urged that chief role was to produce' children, and in this respect he was a bit critical of certain women of his Asked about the Tiger's habitual: antipathy for politicians, Madame Perrenoud said,"'Clemenceau distrust= ed the human' race in general, but: he was indulgent toward mon, taken' individually. He made absolutely no Jdistinetion of' class, and above all, among women. For him, the daughter of the farmer was more sympathetic than the women of high social position and wealth.
"Clemenceau never gave orders his collaborators nor to his servants, He frequently took their advice, and though he never assumed the commanding: tense of q master, there: was never a man who was served in. such mute adoration do. not know the Clemenceaw of violent tempers and unreasoning-passions." Madame Perrenoud said: "lo seemed to be one who went evenly between heaven and orth, in sweet serenity untroubled' by" the noise and strife of the day. His grandeur was that of a god, but his simplicity attached him to earth."
Madame Perrenoud saw—Clemenjceau last on the 20th of November, saw him already' stretched. nis death bed." she concluded, "but hho was. too far gone to recognize, However, his last work was practically: finished. His book on the war, was ready except for a few bite: of. retouching which: should: not me terfere at all with its publication, This manuscript was confided: to the hands of his daughter, Madame: Jacquemaire."—United Press.
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