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GAVE FIVE LIVES For FranceMADAME DOUMER DIES BROKEN-HEARTED.Woman Of Tragedy.POOB of Madame Doumer's sons were killed la the war. Last year her President husband waa a* aaaaloated. The qup of tragedy was filled by the only surviving son's r estrangement from his mother.11 The most tragic woman in the aorld• I died In Faria recently of a broken 11 heart.She waa Mme. Blanch* Douraer, the : woman who gave all she loved to her country.Her frlenda thought she had suffered enough when she lost one ofI her daughters early in her married life. When a non waa killed In thei great war they thought she had more than her share of the world’s nor-i rows. A second son ... a third son . . . • fourth son killed . What j , a debt the country owed her. said her friends.II The State wae relentless. The State ! took the man she loved most and con-, ferred great honour on him, made himPresident of the Republic.How proud she must be. whispered the citIrens of Caen, where Boumer had been a schoolmaster In his , younger days. How wonderful for i the little girl they had known as the• schoolmaster's sweetheart to be the 'first lady in the land.Tragedy had not finished with her. There came that dreadful day a year ago when President Doumer was allot by a mad asaassin.Franc* went hysterical with grief.The little woman who was the President's wife alone remained calm at her husband's deathbed- She said to the Prime Minister, Let me have I him until Monday.” The room waa rleared. Leaders of the State left the chamber of death.Then years of pent-up sorrows escaped from the brave little woman. She threw herself on the body or the husband she Idolised and cried I tlir she could cry no more. She 'refused for hours to leave the man who In his last breath bad cried, •'Blanche, Blanche ...”France had seen Utile of its most tragic woman since that day. she ! bravely bore the ordeal of the funeral, and then disappeared from public life. She had sheltered from the world in ; the little town of C**n. where she waa born. Occasionally she paid a visit to Paris, not to meet her friends or to see the life of the city, but to walk, quietly and unnoticed, down the ' Street of the Four Sons of President Doumer.” the road named after her four sacrifices.All day Ministers, generals, men of fame called at the house of Caen to , pay tribute to this worosn, and the k wife of the new President of France . stood silently over her body.Somewhere In France was Mme.. Doumer's only surviving son. who waa estranged from his mother. Tragedy saw Mme. Doumer on her last Jour-j ney-, MARRIED AFTER 50 YEARS.■ Kn« anil ■ arlrl In
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Rockhampton Evening News
Rockhampton, Queensland, AU
Tue, May 30, 1933
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