Crossword-Solution: RIBOT 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

PEACE AT RUSSIA’S EXPENSE The Ribot revelations of Austria’s peace-offer to France; the so-called “Peace Conference” at Berne, Switzerland, during the summer of 1917, in which delegates participated from all belligerent countries, representing large financial interests in all these countries; and the attempted negotiations of an English agent with a Bulgarian church dignitary; all pointed to the fact that there were strong currents, on both sides, favourable to patching up a peace at the expense of Russia.

Seneschal, he said,-- “Let the witnesses come in, but one by one.” The first who entered was the only son of a well-to-do farmer in the village of Brechy, called Ribot.

Unlike young Ribot, who had shown great assurance, the old man looked humble and cringing in his dirty, ill-smelling rags.

And, in fact, whom does he meet?--a loose fellow, Ribot, who is himself in hiding on account of some love-intrigue; a wood-stealer, Gaudry, whose only anxiety is to avoid the gendarmes; an old woman, finally, Mrs.

When young Ribot saw the others hesitate, he said,-- “Well, I’ll drive the justice.” And, taking hold of the whip and the reins, he took his seat on the front-bench, while the magistrate, the commonwealth attorney, and the clerk filled the vehicle.