The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-12

VIvier, niece Of the Henriade's author.
and this is one of the chef d 'euvres in the
museum.
For the past twenty-five years painters,
sculptors and collectors have offered
pictures, statues and documents of in
tercst and the three hundred and fifty
werks form history of the theater. The
anatomical department of the museum is
not well furnished; there is the jawbone
of Moliere, lock of Talma's hair and
now piece of Talma's heart enriches the
collection. Monsieur Jules Claretie re-
refused to accept the embalmed hand of
Mile. Duchesnois from Monsieur Talon, a
Lyons magistrate, as this gift 6ordered on
The horrible. The piece of Talma's heart is
contained in bottle. while his hair con-
slsts of few white threads, placed under
a watch glass.
Not very long ago the guardians of the
Louvre Museum were searching in for
gotten corners. and found an immense box,
in wHich were the collar bone of Hughes
Capet. thigbbone of Charles vi. portion
of Charles Wis spinal column. tibia of
Francis |, ribs of Charles TX, Philippe lie
Bel. Louis y, tbia of CARDINAL de Retz.
aud iawhones of Catherine de Medics
anu 4.Aue Il AnSt'ia. All these relics are
labeled. aud lu,eStlgal.nnS ! rive that
when the t0mbs at Saint Denis weIe
violated these bones ana fragments of
bones were saved from destruction by
faithful friends of royalty.
VOltaire's heart was preserved in a
golden box. and kept by the MarQuise de
Villette. At ner death the heart was Of
fered to the National Library, and there it
is supposed to be at the present time.
At the lnvalides is preserved the heart
of Napoleon /. There are two stories
about this heart. One is that Automarche.
the physician. was interrupted in its
preparation, and when he returned to
his work the heart had been eaten by rats.
The poor doctor was obliged to substitute
a sleeps heart. Another version is that
while the physician slept rat carried off
the heart, but dropped it ON the way to his
hiding place. In either case, the Invaljdes
possesses only what rat was kind enough
to leave.
A portion OF Richard Ceur de Lions
heart is preserved at ROnen, and that of
Saint Louis was found under one of the
stones in the Sainte Cnapelle, Paris.
The intestines of this good King are in a
convent at MOnreale, near Palermo.
We should have been able to see the
heart of the famous Regent had it not
been eaten by his favorite dog at the
moment it was ready for embalming.
Button stated in his will that his heart
was to be- given to his dearest friend.
Fanjas de Saint Fond. Buttons son offered
to give his fathers brain In exchange for
the heart. and for long time negotiations
were pending. At last Fanjas decided to
accept the brain, and to-day it may be
seen In crystal urn. on which Is in
scribed. "Cerveau de Nj. de Button, pre-
pare la maniere Egyptienne."
After the post mortem examination of
Gambetta his heart was placed in glass
jar and c0nfide6 to the care of M. Paul
Bert, the late GovernoI-General of Ton
quin. NJ. Bert placed the jar containing
tine heart in strong chest and left it in
his Paris home. After his death Nine.
Bert found the heart as it had been left
and she will guard the relic until the day
the monument at Vile d'Avray shall be
ready for its reception.
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
Paris, Oct. 20, 1898.