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Faure's Equipage

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Writing recently a Paris correspondent says: "The president's equipag when he drove to the course at Longchamps, was an object of general curiasity,' which was Ehown in a friendly manner, It was preceded by the outrider Montjarret, whorn M. CasimirPerier engaged, but dU not venture to amploy, the public thinking this kind of servant smacked too much of the Second Empire. M. Casimir-Perier was a colllery king, and was thought io be strongly reactionist, but M. Faure, being self-made, is looked upon as the people's president, and can do as he chooss. The landau In which the presiSent and Mme. Paure went to the races is elegantly built. Two servants in tri-colored livery sat on the high rumble. The team of four ays was (Iriven by postillions. Montjarret, whose business was to keep the way jpen for the presidential equipage, wore a blue frock coat, bordered with gold lace and faced with red. white doeskin breeches, top boots, and a hat with a ?old band and tri-colored cockade. In all but the color of the coat the suit was exactly like that of the emperor's outriders. Two men on horseback usually preceded the imperial equipage, but .lontjarret served alone to-day. He had attached to his leather girdle a formidable-looking knife or cutlass. The daughters of M. Faure, a lady friend of theirs, and M. De Gall, the private secretary, followed in the second carriage. TUe under secretarles were in the third.

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