Lieutenant des Loups

La Duchesse d'Uzes, handsome, white-haired, expert huntswoman, ardent Royalist, is the first woman to hold the position of Lieutenant des Loups (Lieutenant of Wolves). Told by M. Cheron, Minister of Agriculture, that if she 'accepted the honor she would have to swear allegiance to the Trench Republic, the Duchess extended her hand to the

Minister and said: " Something has changed in France since 1914."

As a gallant Lieutenant, the Duchess will wear huntsman's green and carry a bugle. She is also authorized to hunt wolves all over France and can organize boar and other hunts in the State forests.

The Duchess says that since the war the wolves have come back into the forests on her great Ardennes estates.