, 1874-02-22

smashed all tho carriage NlndoNa, knocke'
Saint-Relant down and wounded him severely
| blew the poor girl to atoms, leaving only be
I legs and feet, aud killed and wounded si1t.
| persons.
| THE EscApE.
] Napoleon believed that the Jacobins, Of whom
q remnant remained, bad devised this thing. ant
| he had list prepared and some OF the most no
! table men in France banished to the Cayenne
amongst them The veteran Gen. Rossignal, LIE
brun, the painter, and Cer1acch;-a eculpto
| whoso work is in the old Capitol at Washington
and who modelled q head Of Gen. Washington
| and others, were executed. The only effect up.
! on the national polity Of F7auce obtained b.
| this iniqultous performance WAS to hasten tut
] Empire snd widen tue arena of bloodshed il
] civilization.
Fouchee, however, holding to tho belief
t that CadouaaTa> gang, and not the Jacob-
ms, were the guilty persons. continued his in
vestigations, and in another month fixed tho re-
eponelbllty. The original owner OF the horse,
the stable keeper, and the cooper who bound
the barrel with iron. we're found, and police
agents sent to the fastnesees OF Bretagne dis
covered where Carbon's sisters lodged in Paris.
From the youngest sister was e1torted the reye-
1atiou Of tho wherea5outs OF two OF the wretches.
Carbon had found an asylum amongst some old
1ucnded there by tie family Of an Arch
Bishop. Carbon denounced Limoelan and SAINT
lfejaut, and tho latter was found wounded IL
bed, tended by Quo OF Cadoudsrs men, and with
all the proofs Of tho conspiracy about him. Thus
two OF the assasBinB were found and promptly
behcaded; hut Limoelan, in soma manner not
yet revealed, escaped to America, and his body
rests under the Convent Of Georgetown, which
his fortune has endowed.
BANDIT PRIEST
His real name wns Joseph Pierre Plcot dc
Limoelan de Cloriviere, and he Was Breton
officer in the army Of Louis XVI, OF the age Of
81 when the Revolution broke out. At that
time, his schoolmsto, the great Chateaubriand,
l. C.Jv
priests who were to establish Priests College
at Baltimore, while Chateaubrland wanted to
find the Northwest Passage. These French
priests had been nearly ten years enugly fixed in
professorships at Baltimore and Georgetown
whom Limoelan took fight. He naturally CANA
to tnem for protection; for bis uncle WAS re-
nowned Jesuit, and between 1914 and 1924 Vas
Superior OF the Jesulta in france. Ten years
before the explosion Of the informal machine,
according to shea's History Of tue Church,
uncle to come to America. aud Shea sayB that
Carroll knew the elder Cloriyiere intimately in
1880. Now, queerly enough, il was in 1880 that
Carroll made bis second visit to England, where
It would appear, therefore, that the two Jesuit
priests must hayo known ea:h other, perhaps at
st. Omar, France, where Carroll WAS educated,
and, as Jesuita keep up international corres0ond-
ence with great ZEAL it is possible that tho uncle
and the American Bishop arranged to make it
When Llmoelan WAS doing this work in Paris,
he WAS Cheyaher Of St. Louis, aud Major
General under Cadoudal. Willie Cadoudal was
serving the Church, he WAS also putting priests
to death whom he suspected OF inciining. to
pence. Limoelan was, at the time, atiianced to q
young lady ut Versailles, and he wrote to the
family, before otnbarking, to send her to the
United States for the solemnization Of the mr.
riase. She replied that. when he was in the
greatest danger, sho had made vow OF perpet-
raIihacr Haven w,1t11d r1rtT,}t him tn aa-
cape. The young exile saw no other source but to
follow her example; but it seems that he did not
do 50 promptly,-for it w:e not Iatll 1903 when
he entered the Priests Seminary q. Baltimore at
the age Of 40.
LITEnATunE OF THE CONVENT.
The late French author, Saint Reuve. wrote \
romance called "Tolupte," In which he made
Linoelan figure, as well AZ bis a.fiaDced, Mile.
Jeune dA1bert; but he was SO little respectful
to the Breton that the family OF the latter wrote
took pains not to become nun. |
Linnoelan was consecrated in 1872, and sent to |
Charleston to put down the Catholic }aity in /
their attempts to obtain more representation, |
and there he spent some Years. |
Whether he was appointed Director Of the |
Georgetown Convent by Neale, Or by the third !
Bishop Of the Church in America, who Was a
Freuchman, il not clear. Tho latter, Archbishop
Marechal, ras born near Orleans, and sent mis-
sionary to old St. Mary's, and to the eastern !
shore Of MARYLAND, md after spending several
other years in France, Was made absolute heroin
he United States
DEATH or THE ABBE
There in little more to be said abont Limoelan,
Except that he governed the MUS about nine
Fears, and, in 1874, they were 30 poor aud starv-
ng Is to hare resolved to disperse. Their
Director ordered his property III France
Q be sold to meet the Situation, and,
nth the receipts, he built tho present
;hspel OF the Sacred Heart Of Jesus within the
nd to1 fka h,1t |
chool became eelf-sustalning with these en1arge-
aont, aud in 1894 he excited the country, aud |
eyived the bloody episode Of his early Life, by
roclaiuaiug miracle at the convent.
10 Rue Saint Naicalse, twenty-four years preyi-
usly. It WAS preceded by the alleged cure OF
[rs. Ammo Mattlngly, aister of the Mayor Of
'ashington, who had written for advice as to
eE disease to the Prlest-Prince Hohenlohe, who
as at the time q professional mirac1e-wosker |
snu, or nine-prayer devotion, for Mrs. Mattne-
:; and tunor with which she w8s afflicted was
lddeulJ cured. Enormous excitemeDt follow
this cure, the Protestauts decrylns tho hon.
sty Of the thing; but the Ahbe Clotiyicre |
enched the matter by having one Of his huns
efeciualy cured.
At the age Of So L1moelan wns stricken with
pople1y, and survived tue stroke but little
hiic- He requested that he ahould be buried
tho middle OF the convent-vault, and tomb
sjsed over him, on which the coffin OF each
accessively-dying sister should DO rested while
,e ceremony OF tho dead was being performed.
y his will he condemned to the flames his vo-
Iminoue memoirs on his portion in the plot to
the FirBt Consul, and other matters
bout the Wat In D1etagne and Potion. An old !
Hter 1ecollects that he showed her the bundles
,ntaining these memoirs, saying that be sealed |
,e account Of eech year at its close. and never
gain opeued it, although, aa he added, much OF !
terest lay therein, both to history and to re-
gon. His wishes we're strictly complied With, !
i'd the manuscript burned, thus deepening the
yRtery, it possible, around the convent-vault,
here now and then the baud OF self-incarcerated
omen meet to consign some OF their number
the scarcely-uar1ower arena Of the grave;
I'd the central object in the place is the plAin
NIB OF Limoelan.
PARALLEL READINGS.
Some OF the circumstances in the above story
call the flight OF John Surratt d pupil OF
georgetown College, which presides over the !
invent. Surratt, more secular than Limoelan,
It only escaped ACROSS the sea after
ling hidden by Trench priests about
ontreal. but he became military man in the
.pal Guards. and thence VISITED the scenes OF
'naparte's campaigns in Egypt, to be returned
his country on ship-cf-war, acquitted. and
la1y married few miles from the Capital
$ mother. however, WAS left in the place Of the
tie girl who held the horse for tie assAssinp III
e Rue Sant-Nacaise.
AoMAEI5H At TIE CAPITAL.
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