Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-18
macMAHON DEAD.

= French Republic Breathes His Last End of an Honorable and Famous Career.
 PARIS, Oct. 17.-Field Marshal kacMa- hon, Duke of Magenta, died this morning.
 The Irish patronymic of the Duo de Magenta is preceded by the distinctly Hi- bernian name of Patrick, his full name being Marie Edme Patrick Maurice de Mac Mahon. His forefathers espoused the un- fortunate cause of the Stuarts, and that is | how the famous soldier happened to be a l Frenchman, with relatives among the best 1 blood of the old nobility. He Is said to be l descended directly from the Irish king, Brian Boru, who routed the Danes at Clon- tarf, and one of his relatives made himself famous at Waterloo. The battle was lost, but it was necessary to make a desperate effort to cover the retreat of the shattered army. "Charge, keep charging, boys," said MacMahon to the Third Cutrsssiers.
 Marshal" ," said the colonel, "we are SO cut up it is certain death for us to charge; you know it."
 "Embrace me, my friend," was MacMa- hons only reply; and then the two gallant soldiers led forward the regiment which made those three terrible charges that are recorded among the great deeds of the French army. Only 109 men of its num- ber remained, and of these all but eight were wounded.
 In the seventeenth century one Terence MscMahon was retainer of the famous house of Sars6eld. He owned 8 farm at Leadmore, County Clare, which had be- fo hfa for Py1k he was fallen in fortune, and was glad to serve the great Sarsfelds. He had a son named Terence, and this son married Anne Clarke, a waiting maid who had served the Castlemaines and had been | brought to Ireland by Lord Tyroonnel. This couple went back to Leadmore to live. Of all their children only one, John, lived to grow up; and as a companion for him they adopted nephew, John Baptist Mac Mahon.
 The two lads were sent to France to be educated as physicians, and after gradua- tion were appointed to military service. John went with Lord Tyrconnel to Berlin as French Ambassador, and physician to the embassy, and was friend of Voltaire. He left one son, Patrick, who was librarian to the Faculty of Medicine in Paris for many years.
 John Baptist MacMahon was a favorite among the ladies of the French court. One | of them got him place at great hospital | at Autun, and introduced him to a crip. l pied old woman who was worth 5000, 900 francs. The old woman died and left him her heir Then he married Charlotte le Belin d'Eguilly, the widow of one noble man, daughter of another and neice and nsir O. a third, in 1754, and they had seven l children. Some of these took titles belong ! ing [" their mothers family, as Marquis de | Vlange, Comte de Charnay and Baron
 Sully The second son, who bore the last
 two titles, fled to Brussels during the
 French revolution, and married lady of
 the great Caraman-Chimsy family, niece
 of Mirabeau. Their third son was the great
 Marshal.
 HIS EARLY CAREER,
 Born at Sully, on the river Loire, on July
 13. 1908, and educated at the celebrated
 military school at St. Cyr, he WAS sent al
 twenty-two to the wars in Algeria and suc
 cessively was aide de camp to Genera
 Archard in the expedition to Antwerp 1T
 1832, when that city was compelled to joi1
 the revolution which separated Belgium
 from Holland; captain in 1888 and side-de . ! camp to several generals in Africa; majo of foot chasseurs in 1S4O after the assaul I of Constantine; lieutenant colonel of tn Foreign legion in 1s42; colonel of the For r | ty first of the Line in 1845 and general o brigade in 1848.
 [ In 1849 he was governor of Gran ant
 Constantine, and in this instance was
 success as sn administrator. To quote friendly critic:
 "Ardent in work, reserved in manner
 anxious for strict justice to ali, he sttsine
 this result, the value of which may be un
 derstood by all who have meddled in tn
 affairs of Algeria-that he never excite . | the odium of any persons, whether soldiers
 frontiers to bs respected even by the mos
 turbulent and aggressive of the Mooris | tribes"
 AFTER THE WAR.
 The story of MacMahon's bravery durin = the war with Germany is familiar. Whe
 the resignation of Thiers, the first prea
 dent of the third republic, was forced b
 the monarchical party in 1873, MacMaho
 was immediately selected to succeed hin | He had been badly wounded at Sedan, br
 had recovered in time to be active in th suppression of the Commune, and had bee = constant in the service of the republic. f President MacMahon was not at all pol e ular with the violent republicans anon |: the people, and he had rather stormy ai
 ministration. He was frankly in sympi thy with the monsrchical party, and hi ! bitterest enemy was Gambetta. His di
 misssl of the Jules Simon cabinet in Ma, s | 1877, and his appointment of the Due
 Broglie as premier made much trouble n and in 1879 he was compelled to resign. He had since lived quietly with his f. . milisr, brave soldier, an honest state
 man and man without animosities.
 Marshal MacMahon married Elizabet
 Charlotte Sophie de Ia Croix de Castries
 March, 1855. The Marechale survives t, There are also three sons and a daughte living. The ducal title descends to tt
 eldest son, Marie Armand Patrice de Ma
 Mahon, who is in the French army.