Jailed

Charles Maurras, " brains of the French Royalist Party," was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having ordered an attack on the Socialist Deputies Marius Moutet and Marc Sangnier and former Minister Viollette. (TIME, June 11.)

Three young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers) were sentenced with Maurras to terms of imprisonment. It was when they were arrested that Maurras came forward and said that he must be tried with them as he had given the order for and organized the attacks.

During the trial Maurras defended the recent actions of the Camelots as being necessary to check the spread of Bolshevism. " We wished to show to the adversaries of the country," he said, "that they were running risks and that others were watching while the police were asleep."

Maurras also claimed that he and his followers, like the king, were above the law. Said he: " When the social contract is broken, men return to a state of nature and retake their liberty. Resign yourselves, therefore, gentlemen, to having to allow us to act!"

The Public Prosecutor replied: " If we apply these ideas we will end in civil war. Our social relations must be free. No group, no party, no individual is above the law, and it is for this tribunal to make that fact respected."