M. FaNieves, the President of the French Republic, was assaulted
on the morning of Christmas Day, while walking in the Champs Elysees with his secretary and an officer of the household, by a man named Mathis. The assailant, who seized M. Fallieres by the throat, but was promptly dragged off and given in charge by the President's companions, is a restaurant waiter belonging to the Syndicat Janne, a reactionary Trade-Union organisation founded by M. Bietry, an Orleanist Deputy, and is alleged to have frequented the company of Royalist agitators. The inquiries set on foot seem to show that Mathis is an obscure fanatic of ill-balanced mind, goaded into outrage by the slanders of the gutter Press. It is noted that M. Bietry is the only public man who has ventured to palliate the outrage, in which course he is supported by the Royalist organ, the Action Francoise. These facts lend a certain significance to an otherwise contemptible and stupid outrage.
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