Bisbee daily review., 1903-01-30
MEPISODE OF TIE
 FRENCH REVOLUTION
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WAS conceived Ier lDe young MafQulSe ue ia Favette was probably the most pathetic in its results.
 Jean Truville was an idealist. Though of good but not noble family he joined the revolutionary forces simply through a desire to better the condition of the lower classes. When. however, he saw Paris deluged with blood. he learned bow 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 Fayette to draw the old dukes will. There he had met the Marquise Louise, his daughter, and she had won his heart not only by she 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 suffer the same fate in order that the family of aristocrats might become extinct, he resolved to save her even if he lost his own life iD doing so.
 In drawing tie dukes will Jean had noticed that provision was made for the return of a son and heir to the cs- 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 Favette, procured likeness of this young man and hired q costumer 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 he possessed to sign a statement that she had carried child to the Cha teau Favette twenty years before whc 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 the ex- ecution of Louise de la Favette. Jean as soon as the tribunal whose sole busi- ness it vas 10 bring aristocrats to the guillotine came together walked up to the desk before the president and said:
 Citizen. 1 am Antoine de la Favette, just returned from America. where l have been fighting the great battle which you are fighting 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 of our family completely. you must ex- ecute me and not the young girl who Is supposed to me my sister. for she is not a La Favette having been adopted by my mother without her knowledge"
 What proof have you of the truth Of what you say" asked the citizen judge.
 T may easily be identified from DOT traits of me in the Chateau Favette. Besides, my father must have left q will. In that will he surely made pro vision for my return, for he had 10 proof of my death. As to proof of my statement respecting my supposed sis fer, have provided myself with the sworn statement of Rachel Duprcy. who carried the babe 10 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 execu- ton of Citizeness Favette."
 Jean was imprisoned in the coDcier- gerie while the court investigated the truth of his statement. The will of the late duke on file verified Jeans statement as to the missing heir, and Rachel Duprey stood by her written af- hdayit that she had carried Louise 10 the chateau. The court was too busily engaged in it's bloody work to probe the matter and decided 10 consider Jean the rightful heir to the Fayette 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 Ia Favette and the reyolutiOnists wished to exte7minate his family and to gel possession of his estate. Therefore aft CT spirited debate it was voted to ex- ecute him.
 One morning a soldier entered the cOncfeTSerle ana Eedu AHe iia Hifs SA number of persons there who were to be taken out for execution. One of them was Citizen Favette-
 Louise, who supposed that the man had made an error in reading citizen instead of citizeness. was trying tI get up from her chair to go to hei death when she saw young man ris' and take his place among the con demned. The next moment the soldier read:
 "She who was known as Citizenes' Favette is free to go"
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