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attend the meetings, but he disappeared after
each. He kept this up for more than year ~
Paris and so incurred the SUSPICION OF ms his
brother Anarchists, WHO believed tnat ,ts ~
the police. He fed to London. Whitner ms
evil reputation preceded him. so th9t ne % was ss
very coldly, received BY the reyoiutionary
OF IL Anony mat, which held its meetings 1T
a BARRIERS in New Bond street. Lhe group
published MANY manifestoes 81 extreme ViD-
ticuarl agai1st Nal tsstl, MllatH md
Pouget He also affiliated with gang en-
gagged In an infamous trafllc. that OF the I'm,
portaton from France Of Young women ana
children for immoral purposes. among thsm
a yonng Partisan governess. ParmlgGlanI
was to be- seen In various disrepita BILE resorts
He was finally conpron missed in 9 rasoally
afYair and conds nnei. bnt succeeded In nscap-
ing from England and renching brlsselIr Sarr
to England, where he served term IN jail
For DAYS subsequently, the papers were full
OF the affair, and even the Anarchists we're
heard from in frantic repudiation Of ParmiS-
giani Agresti wrote to the Italian journal
the Audnh, saving that he knew and ire
quentlv met the rascal but had never tolerated
anv intimacy with him. having recognized
him from the outset as a vulRar and dns-
tardlv malefactor." The Giorndle dItGhG
printed this
In 1850 Parmiggiani and his associate PM
went on Feb, is to MTa1da TO Kill Iolso Yer.
reti and also the Deputy Prampoli1i. VINO ma
Withdrawn from anarchisn. PM ana r
miggiani entered Cerreti's house at night 70
assassnate him. but finding him MT table WITH
his famil Pi1i's heart weakened and he seihed
Parmiggiani's arm SO that Cerreti was ohlr
wounded in the thigh. The assassins then
went TO Reggie. Emilia to kin Prampol!nl. ent ent
foul Of the police, of whom the, wounded one one
and made good their escape. PM was sub,
se1uentlr arrested. tried, condemned ana
sent to Cay enne. where he died.
Extraordinary training this for an anti
quarian and fine art devoted ltis painful to
relate, however, that NJ. Camille Legrand,
the expert delegated BY the court to examine
the Parmiggiani antiques. has declared them
all to be false, and it is now senerallyaccepted
In Paris that the establishment in the Rue de
Londres was nothing more or less than an
agency for the dispersion Of fraudulent works
Of art emanating from some source OF extraor-
dinary fecundity and heretofore unheard-
Of ability. The collection which examined,
which is now in the hands of the authori-
ties, was certainly appalling in respect Of the
proficiency Of the persons who produced the
objects how appalling may be inferred when
/ say that it deceived the greatest expert In
Paris, and that at the very time write OF he
was In treaty for number OF Its most con-
splcuOuS examples. Aue dNLlluitE "Viiu i'
stirred up over the affair to an even greater
extent than il was over the Rouchomowski
tiara in the Louvre, and one hears on all sides
Of the exploits Of the Marcy-Frileuse combi-
nation, whose victims are alleged to include
the Louvre itself the South KeNsington Mu-
scum and most OF the great amateurs.
Would the admirable police of your city
be good enough to SAY if they have any knowl-
edge of the accomplished M. Louis Marcyr
What did he do while he sojourned at the
Cafe Martin? Are there any crimes OF par
ticular lustre that are uuex planned and yet
correspond 10 ne term of his vislt' Is it
possible that the eminent practitioner con-
fined his attention solely to aesthetic pursuits?
May it not be that certain collectors or art
dealers enriched their possessions at his in
stance? And if so. how interesting to weigh
and consider the quality Of what he parted
With
In his way he is a distinguished. if not an
illustrious, figure in hs line. So far as know.
he is the only Anarchist. murderer and burglar
that has sprung from that highly respectable
calling, the antiquity trade.