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La Presse - March 29, 1925



As expected, the "ruckus" began again today in the Latin Quarter. The students refused to allow Professor Georges Scelle to give his lecture. The lecture did not take place. But here are the various incidents of the day:

The Morning
Despite the minister's advice and the dean's appeal for calm, the students are determined to interrupt the new professor.
We have learned, however, that the "Anti-Fascist" Students group plans to organize a counter-demonstration in support of Mr. Scelle at 2:30 p.m. on Rue Soufflot.
One of the members of the Association told us this morning:
Mr. Georges Scelle has demonstrated a formidable sectarianism, and we intend to ban him from our Faculty. We will succeed. Already, a strict police force has barred entry to the Law School to anyone who does not present a properly stamped third-year student ID card.
As early as eleven o'clock this morning, students had entered all the Faculty's lecture halls.
They had taken the precaution of carrying food in their briefcases or pockets.
No one knows what might happen. We might have to endure a full-scale siege!... Lecture Hall 4, where Mr. Scelle is scheduled to give his lecture, is packed.
A meeting is organized. Mr. Barthélemy, Dean of the Faculty, tries in vain to restore calm. He is refused.

Afternoon
At two o'clock, Professor Scelle does not appear. The students loudly express their joy, and the commotion begins in the lecture hall: whistles and boos. On Rue Soufflot, the entire area near the Faculty is blocked by police lines; from Rue Toullier to Place du Panthéon, there's no passage!
Pressed against the police barriers, several hundred students shout "Conspuez Herriot" and only stop shouting to use their whistles.
Around 3:00 a.m., a fight breaks out on Place du Panthéon between royalist and communist students. Blows are exchanged. The police intervene and, without bias, take the most furious fighters from both the right and left to the police station.

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La Presse 1925 03 29 The "ruckus" started again today in the Quartier Latin


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