Furious statements are being made as to the health of
M. Carnot, According to one account, he is in a dangerous con- dition, must go through a serious operation, and will probably resign on the ground of insufficient health to perform his wearing duties. According to another, he has recovered at Fontainebleau, drives about every day, laughs at the idea of an operation, and is, in fact, in full health and vigour. No statement on the subject is worth reading until the elections of Sunday are over. The wire-pullers are so well aware that the President's death or resignation would be a bewildering shock to peasant-voters, who know nothing of Ministers, that they will say and invent anything on either side. The pro- bability is that M. Carnot is a delicate man without organic disease, but depressed to illness, by overwork, and by the hideous worry of the Panama affair. The only thing certain is that his doctors are a little peremptory in prohibiting excitement.
