The President at Daumier

The good Daumier, so modest, would have been amazed if it had been predicted that the Head of State would come one day to visit an exhibition of his works! Yesterday morning, around 10 o'clock, the President of the Republic, accompanied by M. Jacques Bompard, director of his cabinet, the president of the municipal council, the prefect of the Seine, the prefect of police, arrived at the Victor-Hugo museum. The learned and active curator, Mr. Raymond Escholier, showed him around the exhibition. But after having admired the works of Daumier and Gavarni, and particularly the series of caricatures devoted to the world of the palace - Mr. Millerand never forgets that he wore the toga - the president insisted on reviewing the various floors of the famous house . Furniture made by great poet, the drawings drawn by this hand which sketched the soul of Hernani and Ruy Blas particularly interested him.

The art of being a grandfather

During his visit to Daumier and Gavarni, at Victor Hugo's, on the staircase of the hotel, from which we can see the courtyard of the neighboring municipal school, President Millerand stopped at the windows. With a benevolent and charmed eye, he followed the antics of the little girls dancing in circles under the chestnut trees. - Ah! he said, here is a sight that would have delighted the most illustrious of grandfathers, the author of The Art of Being a Grandfather!

As he was coming out of the curious exhibition, the children, precisely, were escaping from the schools. It was 11:30 a.m. Little men, future voters and little good women, future housewives, acclaimed in their shrill voice the president who, turning towards the prefect of police: — Here, he said with a smile, a demonstration that you hadn't foreseen!