The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
How Brilliant French Careers
Have Collapsed.

Sadness overwhelms one as
recalls the fate of the persons who fig
ured most brilliantly in the day Of the
Empire. Napoleon lips death is famil-
lar. You have present his sons fate.
Dude de Bersigny fell into a rapid decline
the hour the last gun was fired at Sedan.
Baroche died broken-hearted, inconsol-
able for the loss of his eldest son, killed
in Bourget, and for the ruin Of the EN-
pire. Canrobert still lives, but his mind
is ever drowned fathoms deep in the
green poison, abBinthe; z of the most
brilliant chamberlains this narue / can
not Immediately recalD recently blew
out his brains OH hearing a warrant for
his arrest as a felon was about 10 be
served, De Morny went out before last
of lifes meridian exhausted by licen-
tiousness. Achille Fould was found dead
in bed, poisoned Ly nicotine. His eldest
son on reaching majority came into pos
session of So, 600, 900 so we'll invested
they yielded him more than $4,000 a
year; principal and interest have long
since melted into thin air; master is IN
a lunatic asylum. Fould's right-hand
man and confidential Secretary in all his
public offices was Mons. Pelletler.
Fould knew no secret hidden from Pei
letter. Soon after the Empire fell it be-
came necessary to put Pelietier in a mad
house, and to give him the most unedu'
Gated nurse to be had, for his frenzy lay
in telling all the secrets he knew. lg-
norance heard his drivel and found It
Greek. Had it reached educated ears,
families and grave interests had been
compromised.
DR.. Campbell, the favorite physician
of the Empress, as soon as tho
Empire fell, becane-which lciot
or ~lunatic? very, very few people know,
for the last days of his life are shroud-
ed in impenetrable mystery, his partner
Sir Joseph Oliffe was killed by the same
shaft which was fatal 70 the Duke re
Morny; they had been intimate friend
he was the Dukes physician they were
partners In many speculatlons, WINCH
became worthless by that death; Olle
was fercely denounced as guilty by inca
pacity of De Morny's death, for French
! hated him because of his great success,
| SO Oliffe. Though the very picture OIL
health, languished and died. while still
| in LIES meridian. Beule, whose VISA
| land he was most ambitiouslwas graft
fed as o as formed, buried has dag
ger in his heart, Provost Parauo,,
| equally lucky droyea pistol hotthrough
his breast, and now the secret which
has for four months been carefully kept
hes become public. Mons. Rouner
has fallen into idiocy. The
| first symptoms appeared last
August, while lie was at his country re-
treat in in Pointet. Rouher is three
score and ten years. He had been
wounded by seventy New Years days
| Uhey, like the hours, which, according
to the legend on a Spanish sun-dial All
wound, the last slays), is ~dreadfully ia-
cerated and life's tide, often invisible
current from nerve as ruddy stream
| from vein, ebbs through every cash. ADJ
the terrible hours he told DER during
the German war, when assailed Dy e
mob and lodged in Boulogne jail, when
Napoleon III died, when the imperlaI
Prince persisted, these hours ~antedated
years most cruelty, He has come UP
to Paris to be nearer professional skill
though the faculty confess impotence,
for the disease is general breaking up
of the constitut:on.-Paris Letter ln
New Orleans Picayune.