Parislang always have been inter= ested in the "doubles" of—public characters, President Felix Faure had one who copies the clothes and mannerisms of his original with rent fidelity, to return the numerous #1) takenly bestowed upon limy when hie took his walks alien Torand, when Prosilent of the Res public' had a "double" wiwo curried fons ssiall business in the Me valid district, and found the ro scublanee quite profitable, as many people used to come to his shop out of curiosity to seo the President "double." "The same fate now has befallen M, Edouard Herriot, the Minister of Public Instruction, who is certainly og well-known to the man in the street as any living French politician.
The resemblance in this ease was such that a rumour spread abroad hat MI Herriot had opened a win shop in the Rue Blanche as a means of diverting his mind from politi 'A reporter went to the: shop an there discovered, behind the count er, a living portrait of the blow grapher of Madame Récamicr, with the sonic thick black hair, the same breadth of shoulder, the same short moustache, and the' same pipe. Te tudmitted that, when he was a cafe siter, the Habitues used to call him Edouard, but -vhen the ingui asked dame Récamier, he replied that he did not know the Indy, that she was not one of his customers!
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