As members of the French parliament streamed blithely back to Paris last week, after the holidays, they joked and then talked seriously of Le Dauphin.
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is—in political jargon—the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of...