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.<br />One day in July 1902, M. Antoine d&#39;Hergemont, the author of a series of well&ndash;known studies on the megalithic monuments of Brittany, was walking in the Bois with his daughter V&eacute;ronique, when he was assaulted by four men, receiving a blow in the face with a walking&ndash;stick which felled him to the ground.<br />After a short struggle and in spite of his desperate efforts, V&eacute;ronique, the beautiful V&eacute;ronique, as she was called by her friends, was dragged away and bundled into a motor&ndash;car which the spectators of this very brief scene saw making off in the direction of Saint&ndash;Cloud.