The war has led to so many upheavals that not many people now
remember the Hergemont scandal of seventeen years ago. Let us
recall the details in a few lines.
One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d'Hergemont, the author of a
series of well-known studies on the megalithic monuments of
Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter V ronique, when
he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a
walking-stick which felled him to the ground.
After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, V
ronique, the beautiful V ronique, as she was called by her friends,
was dragged away and bundled into a motor-car which the spectators
of this very brief scene saw making off in the direction of
Saint-Cloud.
It was a plain case of kidnapping. The truth became known next
morning. Count Alexis Vorski, a young Polish nobleman of dubious
reputation but of some social prominence and, by his own account,
of royal blood, was in love with V ronique d'Hergemont and V
ronique with him. Repelled and more than once insulted by the
father, he had planned the incident entirely without V ronique's
knowledge or complicity.
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