, 1874-02-21

when one OF the grenRdiers following ave Alm
q knock; but he still persisted, and then ran
with all speed. Bouaparte's carriage had lust
turned an elbow when the barrel exploded.
smashed all the carriage windows, Knocked
Saiut-Reiant down and wounded h1m severely
blew the poor girl to atons, leaving only her
legs md feet, and killed and wounded SIXTY
persons.
Napoleon believed that tho Jacobins, Of whom
A remnant remained, had devised this thing. and
be Lad . List prepared and some Of the most no.
table men in France banished to the Cayenne
amongst thom the veteran Gen: Rosstgna1, Le-
bruu. the painter, and Ce1racchi-a sculptor
whose work is in the old Capitol at Washington,
and who modelled head Of Gen. Washington
and others, were executed. The only effect up
on the national polity Of France obtained by
this iniquitous performance was to hasten the
Empire end widen the arena OF bloodshed in
civilization.
Fonchc, however, holding to the belief
that Cadoudals gang, and not the Jacob
ms we're the guilty persons, continued MS la-
ycstigations, aud in another month liked the re-
Bponsibility. The original owner Of the horse;
the stab1o-keeper, and tho cooper who bound
the barrel with iron. we're found, and police
agents sent to the fastnesBes of Bretagne dis
covered where Carbons sisters lodged in Paris.
From the youngest sister was extorted the reve-
latior of the whereabouts Of two Of the wretches.
Carbon had found an asylum amongst some old
nuns in . remote part Of Paris, recon-
mcnded there by the family Of an Arch
Bishop. Carbon denounced Limoolan and Saint
Rejaut, and the latter WAS found wounded in
bed, tended by one Of Cadoudsls men, and with
all the proofs Of the conspiracy about him. Thus
two of the aasassins were found and promptly
beheaded; but Limoelan, Ill some manner not
yet revealed, escaped to America, and his body
rests under the Convent Of Georgetown, which
his fortune has endowed.
BANDIT PRIEST.
II - IN
Limoelan do Cloriyiere, and he WAS Breton
officer in the army Of Louis XVI, Of the age of
2l when the Revolution broke out. At that
time, his schoolmate, the great Cha:eaubriand,
was starting to America with some Sulplcian
priests who were to establish Priests College
1T Baltimore, while Chateaubr1and wanted to
find the Northwest Passage. These French
priests had been nearly ten years suugly fixed in
professorships at Baltimore and Georgetown
when Llmoelan took tight. he naturally came
to them for protection; for his uncle was 1e-
nowned Jesuit, aud between 1914 aud 1924 Was
Superior Of tie Jesu1ts in France. Ten years
before the explosion Of the internal machine,
according to bhea's History of the Church,
Bishop Carroll had pressed the Jesuit
uncle to come to America. and She's SAYS that
Carroll knew tho cider Cloriviere intimately IN
1880. Now, queerly enough, it was in 1850 that
Carroll made MIS- second visit to England, where
he went to be consecrated by Bishop Wa1msley.
It would appear, therefore, that the two Jesuit
priests must have known each other, perhaps a.
st. Omar, France, where Carroll was educated,
and. as Jesuits keep up international correspond
epce With great ZEAL it is possible that tho uncle
and tho American Bishop arranged to make it
hospitable fer Napoleon's young assassin.
When Limoelan WAS doing THIS work IN P:rls,
ho vas a Cheya1ier Of st. Louis, mud ajor-
General under Cadoudal. Whilo Cadoudal WAS
serving the Church, he was nlso putting priests
to deaIn whom he suspected OF inclining to
peace. Limoelan Was, at tho time, afiancea to
young lady ut Versailles, aud he wrote to the
family, before e!nbarking, to send her to tile
United States for the solemniZatiou OF the mar
riage. She replied that. when he WAS in the
greatest danger. sho had made vow OF perpet-
ual celibacy il Heaven would permit him to es-
cape. The young exile saw no other source but to
follow her example; but it seems that ho did not
do go promptly,-for it was not until 1908 when
he entered tho Priests Seminary at Baltimore. at
the ago OF 40
LITERATUnE OF TIE CONVENT.
The late French author, Saint Bsuye. wrote a
romance called ''Volupte," Ii which ho made
Limoelau figure, as well as his atasncod, allie.
Jeune d'Albcrt; tu: he was 80 little respectful
to the Breton that the family Of the latter wrote
q reply Tho lady in France, although never
marrying took pains not to become a nun.
Limoelan was cousecrated in 1917, and sent to
Charleston to put down tho Catholic laity in
their attempts to obtain more representation,
and there he spent some years.
Whether be was appointed Director OF tho
Georgetown Convent by Neale, or by tile th1rd
Bishop Of the Church in America, who was
F1euclman, is not clear. The latter, Archbishop
Marechal, was born near Orleans, and sent mis-
sionarr to cid st. Nary's, and to the eastern
shore OF Maryland, and, after spending several
other years in France, was made absolute herein
the United States.
DEATH OF THE ADBE.
There is little mote to be said about Iimoeian,
except that he governed the HILLS about niuo
years, and, in 1924, they were SO poor and starv-
ing as to have resolved to disperse. Their
Director ordered his property in France
to be sold to NEE. the situation, and,
Chapel OF the Sacred Heart Of Jesus within the
walls, and erected the Academy building. The
school became self sustaining with these enlarge
ment, and in 1924 he excited the country, and
revived the bloody episode OF Ills early life, by
miracle ct the convent.
This miracle wa8 mysterious as the plot in
the Rue Saint Naicaise, twanty-fonr yeara proVl-
ously. It vas preceded by the alleged cure Of
Mrs. Anne Matt,ngly, sister OF the Mayor OF
Washington, who mad written for advice as to
her disease to the Prlest-Prince Hohenlohe, who
WAS at the time q professional miracle-worket
with worldwide fame. He prescribed a No
rena, OF ninc-prayer devotion. for Mrs. Mating
[y; and q tumor with which she WAS afflicted was
suddenly cured. Enormous excitement follow
ed this cure, tue Protestants decrylng tho hon
CSLY O1 LUIS t0ub Htlt L116 -AuD1 AAo41tAtI6
clenched the matter by having one Of his nuns
as edectuaily cured,
At tho age Of So L,moelan was stricken with
apoplexy, and survived the stroke but 8 little
while. He requested that he should be buried
in the middle of the convent~vault, and a tomb
raised over him, on which the coffin Of each
sister should be rested while
the ceremony Of the dead WAS being performed.
BY his will he condemned to the flames his vo-
luminous memoirs on his portion IN the plot to
assasslnate the First Consul, and other matters
about the war in Bratagne and Poitou. An old
sister recoIccts that Le showed her the bundles
containing these memoirs, saying that hc scaled
the account Of each year Ut its close. and never
again opened it, although, as be added, much Of
interest," lay therein, both to history and to re-
liglou. His wishes wero strictly complied with,
and the manuscript burned thus deepening the
mystery, if possible, around the conyant-vault,
where now and then the band Of seif-incarcerated
women meet to conslgn some Of their number
to the ecarcely-narrower arena of the grave ;
and the central object in the place is the plain
tomb Of Limoelan.
PARALLEL READINGS.
Some OF the circumstances in the above story
recall the high: OF John Surratt, q pupil Of
Georgetown College, which presdes over the
convent. Surratt, more secular than Limoelan,
not only escaped across the sea after
being hidden by French priests about
Montreal. but he became military man in tho
ps1al Grards and thance y1qitad fhe ecaoee of