The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-29
From the .Nsss Orlsans Picayxae, judy 2l.
The Gazette Family.

I0O C0ZOttc F8m1ly.
SevOla Gazette il the name of an aged French
man who died ut Paris on the 2lst June last, aged
nnety-one years. In his youth he came TO Anne
RIGA as q soldier in the French armed expedition
under Count d 'Estaing, which beseged Savannah
during our Revolution
On his return to France, when The revolution
broke out there, lie Joined the Royalst party, and
was of the escort that accompanied Louis XVI.
in his unfortunate attempt to escape rom France
in disguise On the famous day of the 10th Au-
gust, 1884, when the King was declared to have
forfeited the French throne, Gazette made himself
conspicuous by his royallst exertions. lie then
left Paris and joined the regiment known as the
ssRoyal Emigrant.'' He was in the fight at
llundschott and also in the perlous affair at Qui
heron, on the coast of France, where the tsem-
barked emigrs force was cut TO pieces by tho ia
nous General Hoche. ~
At the restoration of Louis XVIII. Gazette re-
ceived the appointment of lieutenant colonel in
the king's army but he was not called into active
service, and received the pension accorded to Off
GERS of his grade. He also appointed to the
superintendent Of the library at the Palace of
Versailles, which Office he lost after the revolution
of 1880. He preserved his faculties clear and ac-
tive to his last breath, and left one and three
daughters.
His father, J. Gazette, one of the most ia
Gle and popular literary men of the eighteenth
century. He was Mt first in government employ
in the marine, and was for some time in Nlarti-
niqne, in an important office. lie soon returned
10 France, and thenceforth devoted himself to ht-
eratnre lie wrote verse with astonishing facility,
and some Of his productions were OF such merit
that they were attributed to Voltaire. He was
the author also, Of Sarah Tales a continue
ton of the celebrated ARABIAN Nights Enter
tanments, not long before translated and pub
lished in France for the first time. The continu
alton exhibited great deal of imaginative power,
and was very popular
Towards the close Of his life he became mem
Der of the mystic sect of the 'Illuminati." This
society was founded in 1776 by Adam Weisshaupt,
Professor of Canonical Law at the University of
Ingolstadt in Bavaria.
The association was organized partly on the
plan of the Society of Jesuits, Gin whose institu
tons Of learning the founder had studied ) and
partly on that of the freemasons. Persons of
all religions were admitted into the ranks of the
new society, the declared object Of which was the
ameorations of mankind by the cultivation of the
purest sentiments of virtue and morality. AT one
time the association numbered two thousand
members, and was in very hourishing condition,
when the founder attempted to extend its nfu-
into public affairs. The government of Ba-
varia interfered, and in 1854 prohibited all such
associations in its territories, and condemned the
members Of this to exile or prison; Weisshaupt
took refuge at Gothn, the Duke of which was
enc of his adopts, and died there in 1922 with the
title of Aulic Councillor
J. Gazette entered fully into all the extravagant
mystic views of the sect, and became known for
his extreme piety His son also participated in
these views. The father took part against the
French revolution, and was arrested on the 10th
August, 1872. He was on the point of being mas
sacred during the infamous days of September in
the prisons ofPars, when his daughter threw her.
self between him and his assassins, and they con-
scented to release him unframed
He was again arrested, however, in few days,
and was gullotined on the 25th September exhibit
ing to the last the most philosophic courage. Many
ofour readers will doubtless remember the thrill
ing story related by La Harpe, the celebrated
French litteratew', of private banquet among a
number Of eminent literary and political person
ages at Paris sometime before the revolution broke
out, and at which Gazette, being rallied about his
sombre humor, rose, and in kind of dream or
hallucnation, delivered fearful prophecy, telling
Of the revolution, the terrible fate Of each guest
and his own, and ending amid the general terror
by limiting most distinctly at the end reserved for
the very highest personages i'll France-Louis
XVI and Maria Antoinette.