, 1870-03-13
THE PASCAL FORGERIES.
Extraordinary Confession-Llterar
Deccptlona.

The Loncoa Tims. Of February II eo1sa,ns the
!uvo o.lna:
forgery sd fraad, was e1atined on WeaussdaJ
Cor1ect;oLaf ID Pa1ia His ayoWals were Of
n sad ia 70 K i ID
less thsr tweniJ.seveu thnuA2nd documents,
for which he had received from rna1 R.atla1so
9pe hundred q. d forty thousand fEancA OF the
twenty.1eyen thousand documents which he sod
70 ", Charles OILY aoout o7e hundred were gco-
a;s6uSa parpcr,ias tp Se Written by JULIUS css,af
arc other RorYn Empe ross. By Apostes aud oJ
poets ard statetmeo Of al ages, aud hsd al: been
nannfac' 1led BY himself withoot &he ala OF any
!. In order to complete the deception he hsd
forged anEotallons upon Old oooIx A2d docu-
MT MS purport.cR 10 be made By former posses
sola OF the nacuscytpte. which he palmsi on uooa
II. Ctarea, and also had rtcourse 10 Vaf1oua ex-
- % e's ar Pas m e
| aud By mlI1tg cotorluG matter with the Tx he
| used. " Charles, upon being examined, sasd be
! was 1e years old. He could NOS III the da:e when
! Lucas 1l11 cane 70 him. nu: II VA . Long uns
ms n,ei9 mS T. ftss if2
ard produced several documents, Whica the lat1er
purchaaed. From thai une these dsailngs BE-.
came frequent, unti! tneJ rescued the enormous
"For an a!leaed Il Ieiser Of Mol!eae u. Charles
paid 600 traIca. aud Tor nsst letter Of Rao-lats
80 traces, afterwards a:lcg ~ various prices
upwards Of 2,@o beatirg the sane s:ana'urr.
Lucas also obtalned mobey from him on different
] Pre:ecces OF pEesNng hee0, lid had aeo Obtained
! eocss which he neyer returned. Being a&fed hy
the Jndge how he explained tie production of
| such documents In ancn plumbers, Il Charles fe-
Piled that ste Iet.eJa plstred each Other Inuss
| alctum wrote to Challema4re upol DOCUMENTS
| which he tourd a: the Abbey Of Tour. R2eelatz
! was sent TO that same abby oy FfaLets L, from
which plsce be Wrole the lett=ts lacaded IN the
IDO le:ttra from .Aciam and nnre thsn. soto f1oEo
| NAteaa H..
HThe detection Of the prisoners fraud srose
from u. CHARLES appfenec aion leas L1cas shou.d
durose cf arJ OF his valuable Manuscripts out Of
France aud he therefore Directed the attention OF
rae police to the mas acSooa. Hhvfns sent a
pretended letter o: Gasi!eo 70 Florence fnt cI-
| animation by committee Of sdrd1s there, It w1a
returned TO niIa Is for7e1yr He then complained
| to Lucas, who gave nlu smother letter. lelltu4
him she oEIeF OF the collection frcu Which those
letters came waa ~ Boisiarthn. Alter sne
AcaEenle ces Sciences had decided that tbs Pa4-
cal letters were forEeres, Lncaa Batd hs eMploge
\ had conAulled him, and he thought the oe5s s1lua
| would be to restore the purchase Monev ana taxi
tack the documents; but th11, bain u. Cna.les
II would ros 90, ast netesed IA Ike.t aQ.heo-
uctsy:'"
| as TO Whist he had tuEe with .na tafxc surea O
] IN saying Ih3t he h1d but rHo LhoQSapd 10 ~ g.,
thousand francs left, md refused TO give nv A
coutt Of hn e1pendltufe Of the femsi1der "a,
/ EIal expers4 were called, as It seems, Fa.hf n,
necessarily, TO prove the methods employ ed
| the prisoner to give The appearance or aks "a n
| forged writings and the fustaeT hear ,av ",
! shen atiQpIped fer Week. w.