Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-15
PARIS LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent. szzEExs
PARIS. July %, 1873.

AXIS July 20, 1oSO
Yesterday 1 got on top of an omnibus
whose destination was the Bastille, but it
was not my intention to stop at this his
toric monument had visited it before.
At the Bastille you get a Correspond
ence," or exchange ticket, for Pere La
chaise, climb to the top of another Omni-
bus, and in ten minutes yOu'have been
borne from the heart of the gayesf, most
glittering, of cosmopolitan centers, to the
gates of the largest collection of illustri-
GUS ashes that any cemetery in the world
enclOses. Itsmay be well to visit Pere
Lachaise, the first time, as l visited it,
without a guide book, and without fore
knowledge of the pFeseRce of the immor-
tails yOu win meet there for, Otherwise,
you win not have the thrill of surprise
when you stand before the tombs of n.
Theirs Ilaplace, Balzac, Moliere, Racine,
Ney, Masseha, AGrouchy, and a host Of
others to whom the world is indebted for
so much of its literature, poetry, history,
science, jurisprupence, and, alas! for so
much of its courage, too. y EsE-stEE
The first monument of Importance, and
one of the most inter esting in the entire
cemetery, situated to the right of the
man entrance, is that of Ableard and
Heloise, whose romantic history is so
well known. It consists of a rectangular
chapel in the Gothic style of the thir-
teenth century, built from the ruins of
the celebrated abbey of Paraclete, of
which Ableard was the founder and He
loise the first abbess. The chapel con-
tains the sarcOphages which Ableard him
self caused to. be constructed before his
death. He is represented in recumbent
posture; by his side is the statue Of Hello
Use. The inscri ptiOAs relate to the iIl-fated
pair, and record the origin of the monu-
ment, and its removal from the Musee
des Petits Augustins, where it was placed
for time. to its present position. The
tomb was decorated with fresh flowers.
the offerings of those who regard this as
the shrine of cOnsecrated love. To the
right Is the tomb of LauxistOn, who, in
1s10Ja as marshal of France, esc6rted the
young Archidhchess Marie Louis to Paris
to take the place of the divorced empress
Josephine. Father NJ. Perie, who was
prime minister to Louis Philippe, rests
beneath a lofty pedestal surmounted by
bronze statue of himself. We pass on to
a tomb covered with literal thousands of
boquets and wreaths of immortelles, some
of which are sixteen feet in circumfer-
ence. It is the grave of Raspail, a dis
tinguished Republican and a candidate
for the Presidereyin 1913. He was af-
forwards arrested and condemned by the
court at Bourges to six years imprison-
ment for having conspired to dissolve the
National Assembly; but, to-day, no tomb
in Pere Lachase is honored with such en-
thusiasm of remembrance from the reha-
bilitated Republic, as that of Raspail. I
attempted, in my blundering Freneh1 to
ask one of the attendants in the cemetery
for the tomb of M. Thiers, but, before
had spoken his name, she anticipated my
wishes and pointed the way. It was not
SO heavily decorated as that of RaspaiI,
but there was dense crowd around it,
and each visitor, after registering his
name in book kept for the purpose, re-
eeived from ans attendant few. immor-
tells as a-sonvenifI S1tA52 =
At an angle formed by the bifurcation
of the path is small space of ground
laid out as garden, the last resting place
of the ill-starred Marshall Ney; no mon
ument or inscription marks this last re-
doubt of him whom Napoleon called 'sthe
bravest of the brave $.
OF the many illustriOus persons buried
here the following names may not be un-
| interesting to the reader. NJ. Darid, the
celebrated painter, and President of the
Convention in 1895, when Louis XVI was
condemned to death by that assembly.
Alfred de Musset, the poet; Mademoiselle
Rachel, the 1eelebrated actress sTaln5a,
the actor; Massina, Lefebvre, Mortier,
and GrOuehy, marshals of the first Ma
poleon, the tardiness of the last of whom
lost him the battle of Waterloo. But I've
not space to mention One-fourth of the
renowned persOnages who have found a
last resting place here. Il CA4 z "a
To obtain burial in Paris, secure from
future disturbance of the grave by the
authorities, is a difficult matter. All fu-
nerals are conducted by the government
which furnishes everything, at cost OF
from four to $500. To obtain simple
burial place for five years costs $40, or
for all time. $780, Those, who are toe
poor to afford this are thrown into the
common pits, holding forty or fifty per
sons. When lot is sold part payment il
made. and kind of mortgage taken t.
secure future payments. If the payment.
are not promptly made the body is take1
up and thrown into the common pit.
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