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After a full week of Olympic parliamentary games, Messieurs les Deputès abruptly quieted down to the Young Plan, passed it by the overwhelming vote of 530 to 55 in a comparatively placid session, sent the Plan to the Senate where it is sure to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lace Crisis; Young Plan | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...were forced to obtain credits of 930,000,000 francs [$179,490,000] from large concerns, but every centime has now been repaid and 7,500,000,000 francs [$1,447,500,000] to our credit in the Bank of France. [Applause.] I repeat, Messieurs les Deputés 'a notable excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Notable Excesses | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

Suddenly a despatch clicked from Paris to London. His Majesty, the King Emperor, was informed that His Excellency, M. le President, could not leave France because MM. les Deputés had upset the Cabinet of M. Briand (See FRANCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flowers Wilt | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputés have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dans le Parlement | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

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