The daily morning Alaskan., 1903-04-30
AN EPISODE or THE
 FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the guillotlue. Among them that which was conceived for the young MarQuiss de la Fuvette was probably the most pathetic in its results.
 Jean Truyllle was an ideallst Though of good but not noble family, hO joined the revolutionary forces simply through desire to better the condition of the lower classes. When. however, he saw Paris dcluged with blood, he learned how dangerous It is to put power Into the hands of people who do not know how to use it. Jean had studied the law and before the revolution had been summoned to the Chateau Favette to draw the old dukes will. There he had met the MarQuise Louise, his daughter. and she had won his heart not only by the charm of her presence, but by treat ing him as her equal When during the reign of terror one day the duke was led out to execution and Jean learned that Louise was to suffcr the same fate in order that the family of aristocrata might become extinct, he resolved Co save her even if he lost his own life in doing SO.
 In drawing the dukes will Jean had noticed that provision was made for the return of a son and heir to the es' tate who had gone to America with La- fayette to take part in the American Revolution and had been reported miss ing after one of the battles in which the French troops were engaged. Jean went to the Chateau Fayette. procured Q likeness of this young man and hired a cosumer to make him up to resemble the subject of the picture. Then, seek Ing an old woman who had been his laundress for years. he gave her all the money be possessed to sign a statement that she had carried a child to tue Cha teau Favette twenty years before who had been adopted by the duchess in place Of her own child, still born and without the dukes knowledge of the substitution.
 It was the day appointed for thu eE' ecution Of Loglse 'ie Ia Favette. Jean as soon as the tribunal whose sole busi- ness 1t was to bring arlstocrats 70 the gulnotlne came together walked up to the desk before the president and said:
 Citizen, am Antoine de d Favette, just returned from America, where ] have been lighting the great battle which you are lighting here-the bat tie of human liberty. l find that you have executed my father, and my sis- ter is to die today If you desire to cut on our family completely you must eI- ecute me and not the young girl who is supposed Co me my sister. for she is not La Favette, having been adopted by my mother without her knowledge"
 What proof have you of the truth of what you sayY asked the citizen judge.
 "I may easily be identified from DOT. traits Of me in the Chateau Fayette. Besides, my father must have left a will. In that will he surely made pro vision for my return, for be had no proof Of my death. As to proof of my statement respecting my supposed sis ter have provided myself with the sworn stat, scnt of Rachel Duprey. who carried ,ac babe to the chateau"
 The citizen judge looked at the young man who proposed to give his life for another with astonishment, then read Rachel Duprey's statement.
 Arrest this man and stay the e1ecu- ton of Ciuzeuess Fayette'
 Jean was imprisoned in the concier- gerle while the court investigated the truth Of his statement. Tue will of the late duke on file verified Jeans statement as to the missing heir, and Rachel Duprpy stood by her written af- Gdavit that sbe had carried Louise to the chateau. The court was too busily engaged in It's bloody work to probe the matter and decided to consider Jean the rightful heir to the Favette estate. The next question was, should he, hay ing voluntarily given himself up, be executed. He had fought in the cause Of liberty In America and had acted nobly in presenting himself to save Louise. But he was the Duke de la Favette. and the reyolutionists wished to exterminate his family and to get possession of his estate. Therefore aft CT spirited debate it was voted to ex' ecute him.
 One morning a soldier entered the cOnclergerle and read the names of a number Of persons there who were to be taken out for execution. One Of them was Citizen Fayette.
 Louise, who supposed that the man had made an error In reading citizen Instead of cltlzeness, was trying to get up from her chair to go to her death when she saw young man rise and take hls place among the con demned. The next moment the soldier read:
 "She who was known as Cltlzenes5 Favette Is free to go"
 When the batch was completed and the prisoners were filing out, Jean' passing Louise. whispered In her ear:
 q die for you because love you"
 After the restoration of the Bourbons the Duke de Ia Fayette returned to France. He had been left for dead on Q battlefield. taken by a trapper west ward and captured by a tribe Of h. dlans In the then wilderness of Ohio. In Paris he found his sister who had learned something of the plan by which she had been saved from death.