Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-06-08
LOVER AND EXECUTIONER.

Ono to Kill-Lovers' Revels ON the Earn
ings of the Scaffold-The Kings Mistress
A Strumpet's Epitaph.
From the New York Dispatch.
Attic end If the reign Of Louis XIV,
and under the regency in France, only doc
tors of the sorbonne were allowed to ac-
company culprits to the scafold, but under
Louis XIV. and XVI. this custom was aban-
doned, and ecclesiastics were selected to
extend the last Offices of the church to con-
demned criminals. When, Jean Baptist
Samson was execuhoner of Paris, the off,
ciating priest at his executions was Dom
Ange Modesto Gomarte of the order of the
Recollects, Able of Picpus.
Father Gomart was kindly, thoughtful
priest, who was reputed to have led
it's episodes existed in the form of a young
girl whom he said was his niece, but who
was actually his daughter. Her mother
had been a dressmaker named Becu, who
after her birth had married clerk of the
custom named Rancon de
Vaubernier, in order to give
HEB NAMELEss DAUGHTER A NAME.
Under the name of Jeanne de Vauber-
nier she was educated at the convent of
Saint Anne, under the apparent care of her
godfather, NJ. Billiard de Monceau, but in
reality under the protection of the worthy
able, her real parent.
Education had produced no beneficial
result on her mind. Her tastes were
thoroughly mundane, and at her earnest en-
treaty she was apprenticed to famous
dressmaker named Labille. This change
was the cause of her loss. In this situation.
which enabled her to see every day the
dandies of the courts and town, her coquetry
rapidly increased, and filled her with q
wish to emulate the brilliant models she
saw. Jeanne's beauty was remarkable, and
there was no doubt that her success would
be great if she could appear on a scene
worthy of her charms. The girl fell prey
to her ambition. Without her father be-
ing able to prevent her, she began to lead
life of sin and dissipation. This was we'll
known to her father. He did not speak
openly of her dissolute habits, but he al
luded to her with bitterness, and he con-
stantly deplored the privilege of fatal
beauty, which was the chief cause of her
loss. "She is the child of sin, he said. Il
fear she feels the influence of her birth"
The person to whom the Able Gomart
spoke most about his hayward child was
the executioner, with whom he had struck
up quite afriendship, and at whose table
he was frequent guest. The headsmar's
son and successor, Charles Henri Samson,
was then in the full strength and axhuber-
ance of youth. His imagination was heat
ed by the priests description of his niece.
and he felt a burning wish to make the ac-
quaintance Of a girl so beautiful, and so in
vested with the charm of romantic wilful-
ness. He learned from her father that she
lived in the Bue de Bae.
He was not long in learning to know her
by sight, and soon became a we'll known
lounger about the street in which she lived.
She, of course, noticed this, and while he
one day stood pensively contemplating her
window, her maid accostod him, saying:
MY mistress has noticed, M. lie Chevali-
er. that you have been following her as If
you wish to speak to her. She
sends me to ask what it may be?"
That returned Samson, slipping gold
piece into the soubrette's hand, II can tell
only her"
'Mademoiselle can be seen" replied the
maid. "She is alone and can receive
whoever she wishes. Under what name
shall announce NJ. lie Chevalier?"
my name is of no importance as your
mistress has never heard il. Still as have
no reason to conceal it, you may announce
the Chevalier de Longval."
Thus, under the name Of the ancestor
who had first adopted the horrible trade to
which he was destined, the disguised son
of the executioner met the sweetheart who
was to leave him to become the mistress Of
king.
The liaison between the pair was pas
sionate and long one, but it ended with
Jeanne de Veaubernier firing of her lover
and seeking new one. Up to the time
they parted she lad no suspicion that he
was other than young country gentleman
of means, for he spent lavishly the money
earned by his father in his craft Of blood.
The years which rolled the French mon
archy on to its doom sped easily and swift
~ with the executioner of Paris. Baptiste
Samson, grown too old to WELD his sword,
passed that grim legacy on to his son. The
lover of Jeanne Vcaubernier became execu-
toner in his turn. The mistress who aban-
doned him became the favorite Of the king.
Madame Dubarry ruled right royalty
while Louis XIV. lived. When the end
came in the small -pox chamber at Versailles