The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1883-09-22

best on his own tombstone.
A small chapel marks fhe resting place
Of Talma, the most celehr1ied Of French
tragedians and the special friend of the
frst Napoleon. They were friends when
both were Young and unknown, one an
obscure and struggling actor and the
other student Of military school. They
saw nothing Of each other for years, DUR
ing which time one vas winning name
in tragic art, while the other was chief
actor in one Of the most lurid yet pictur-
esque dramas in real life that the world
ever saw, and with the world for an audi
ence. Talma sometimes wondered if his
old friend had forgotten him, but one day
he received summons to present HIM
self at the Tuilleries, and when he did 30
Napoleon, then in the height Of his glory,
received him with open arms From that
day they associated on terms Of the clss-
est intimacy, and no one souowed more
sincerely over the downfall Of the en-
peror than did his actor friend. Talma
died in 1896.
There are number of Napoleon gen.
erals buried at Pere-Lachaise. stood
beside the grave Of Marshal Ney, brav-
est OF the brave" who, although the hero
OF hundred battles, was shot as traitor.
No monument marks his grave, but the
Enclosure is filed with flowers continuity.
The name Ney is rudely carved on the
stone threshold OF the gate ~ some un-
known hand, and that is all that indicates
whose grave it is. Near the garden of
the Luxembourg, on the north side of the
Seine, bronze statue of Ney marks the
spot where he was shot on the 9TH Of
December, 1915, in accordance with the
sentence pronounced by the chamber of
peers on the previous evening. The
statue was erected in 1883, by order of
Louis Napoleon, who had a passion for
eommemorating everything and every
body associated with his distinguished
uncle.
We came upon a tomb profusely hung
with wreaths. and found that it was that
Of Theirs, who will long abide in the af-
lection of the French people. a monu-
ment 10 Larrey, famous physician, is
inscribed as follows. 1.-The most virtuous
man | ever knew: Napoleon" When
Napoleon eddersed a mans virtue it
must have been the genuine article and
no mistake. Thsre is a splendid monu-
ment to Marshal Massena, one of Napo-
Icons most brilliant and successful gen.
erals. For his bravery and success at the
battle of Rivoli he was made Due de
Rivoli, and he was also Prince d'Essling.
Napoleon sought continually to perpetu-
ate the names Of his victories. The fine
avenue leading east from the Champs
Elysees by the Tuilleries is called Rue de
Rivoli.
A wife's devotion to her husband is
illustrated in marble relief over the tomb
Of General Lavale,,e, who was condemned
to death in 1915 for some political offease.
The day before the one set for his execu-
ton mis- wife was granted permission to
pay brief visit to him in his cell. While
there she persuaded him to disguise him.
self in her apparel, by which means he
effected his escape, while she remained
behind. The bas-relief represents the
scene in the interior of the cell. He
seems to hesitate while she is urging him
to adopt Jefferson Davis disguise, from
which am inclined to infer tina, the
artist who made the drawing worked I'M
der the direction of the general himself
before his demise, who felt that he might
be criticised when he was gone for sneak
ing out of jail in his wife's bonnie, and
gown, leaving her to bear the consequent
ces, so he had the artist make it appear
that the woman almost forced her clothes
upon him. That is the man of it always
trying to throw responsibility upon the
woman. LAvale,te died peacefully in his
bed fifteen years after being condemned
TO the guillotine, and his heroic wife sur
sived him twenty-five years, as she de-
They slept side by side. There
IS another monument on which an affec-
tomato wife figures largely. II is the
tomb Of Count Labedoyere, colonel OF the
hrst regiment which went over to Napo-
leon on his return from Elba. The count
was afterwards condemned to death and
shot (ISI5). He might have escaped,
but he incautiously returned to Paris after
to sail for America, to take
leave of his wife and child, and was there
The sculptures on the tomb
illustrate this incident.
Among famous women inferred here is
Nine. Duchesnios, tragic actress, who
died in 1885. On her tomb is full
length bas-relief of herself in some tragic
the work of a noted sculptor,
Lemaire. There is monument TO the
memory Of Nine. Blanchard, who per-
shed in making balloon ascension in
1919 Also one to Andrianoff, Russian
3aHsen5e.
A conspicuous monument, in the form
Of pyramid, los feet in height. marks
the resting place Of Beaujour, formerly
consul Of France, who babe the world bon
'oay in 1856. He must have been
wealthy man, for the pyramid was bull,
BY himself at cost Of 1905 900 francs. A
handsome chapel shows where Due de
Morny rests. He was a natural brother
Of Napoleon Ill. and his right hand man
in the conspiracy by which he won inn
perial power. For his real and services
be was rewarded by high offices and
Victor Hugo, in his His
.ory of Great Crime" scores de Morny
At the end of one Of the
avenues, the government has erected pyr-
amid Of granite, with four bronze statues
II soldiers by Lefevre, to the memory Of
JoldierS who fell in IS7o-I. The sfatus