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The following left Paris, last week, to vacation :

President Gaston Doumergue to the "French Summer White House," which is, as every tourist knows, the once royal Chateau de Rambouillet.

Prime Minister Raymond Poincare to his birthplace, Bar-le-duc on the Alsace-Lorraine border.

Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to his farm at Cocherel, in the Eure, where he loves to fish. He has been Prime Minister more often than any other living Frenchman--nine times.

Edouard Herriot, disgruntled incumbent of the Ministry of Education, fallen leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, and previously twice Prime Minister, to Cologne, Germany, where he grew still more peevish from tramping past exhibits at the International Press Fair.

Left behind at Paris, with many a tourist for company, was stern, meticulous, tireless Minister of Justice Louis Barthou, who "never takes a vacation."

The tourists were titillated, last week, by blatant announcement heralding the premiere of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh--called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin.