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"Very well," replied the obliging novelist, "I will change my style;" and next day, M. Millaud was astounded to find the feuilleton introducing a pair of stammerers talking in this agreeable fashion: "Wou-wou-would you de-de-de-deceive me, you wr-wr-wretch?" said the old corsair in a tone of thunder.
"He will make all his characters stutter soon," said Millaud. "We had better pay him by the line." Of course this is a story faite
Millaud, who was a Jew, the son, I think or, at all events, a near relation of the famous founder of Le Petit Journal, the advent of which constituted a great landmark in the history of the French Press set himself, during several years of his career, to prove the truth of the axiom that in France "tout finit par des chansons."
Then he killed the Chevalier de Millaud, but 'twas in fair fight, in the snow, in their shirts. For that, Millaud's son lay in wait for him with two, in the passage under the Chatelet; but Hannibal wounded one, and the others saved themselves. Undoubtedly he is feared!" she added with the same note of pride in her voice.
His departure from the capital was celebrated by that clever versifier of the period, Albert Millaud, who contributed to Le Figaro an amusing effusion, the first verse of which was to this effect: "Gambetta, pale and gloomy, Much wished to go to Tours, But two hundred thousand Prussians In his project made him pause.
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