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...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...
Frenchmen think he looks exactly like Ed Wynn, they are not sure whether he is insane, and they are always ready to read reams about the latest exploit of Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, the famed "Incredible Philibert" (TIME, Dec. 23). It is incredible but true that in hard-headed France, M. Philibert has got away with printing a fantastic international money which he calls the Europa Franc and which he manages to spend in the shops of his native district of Haute Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents...
...succeed that fabulous Deputy M. Philibert Besson, who for years spent most of his time annoying French policemen and escaping arrest on his motorcycle (TIME, Dec. 23), Philibert's old constituency of Le Puy has sent to the Chamber astounding Deputy Félix Archer...
...Besson turned to the problems of international finance. To end Depression he suggested an international currency known as "Europa francs," printed bundles of them, insisted on paying for all his purchases with them, a habit less popular with his constituents than his dramatic escapes from the police...
Arrested last week, Besson accepted fate stoically. But no sooner was he arraigned before the magistrate than friends produced as from a magician's hat a full pardon-signed by Albert Lebrun, President of France...