New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-11
THE INvAL1pEs TO GO.

Every American who has sojourned in Paris
has visited the grand old palace of the Invalides
built by King Louis XIV and which is chiefly
known as the Pantheon Of Frances military
heroes and as the home for veteran soldiers,
crippled in the service of their country. Turenne
yauban and number of others of Frances
most famous marshais. many of them who owed
their baton to the first Napoleon, lie entomoed
there while, of course, the principal sarcophagus
IS that which contains the body Of the great En-
peror. Many people WILL therefore. be interested
10 learn that the most picturesque feature of the
Invalides namely the old soldiers. are about TO
dfsappear the government requiring the room
sn the palace which they occupy for the housing
@, the ever increasing collections Of the army
and artillery museums
The old pensioners have been Il feature Of the
Invalides ever since the days Of King Louis
XIV. who created the palace specially for them
He first built the church and the mausoieum for
the tonaEs OF Frances famous warriors, ana
then decided that none were so Wen htted TO
watch over these illustrious dead as OLD PEN
stoned soldiers OF France. With their long COATS
their white rnustaches and their medal pedeckeo
freaats. they constituted a sort OF impersonih-
cation Of French patriotism. and their disap-
pearance viii be regretted by many not oniy III
France but also abroad.
After the great fariS eAtisoAt+OA VA 1"SO 49,
contents OF the so-called Palace OF war 10
which all nations of the world, civilized ana I'M
civilized had contributed. were presented 70 the
French government. which has until now peeh
unable for want of room TO display the ~ondeF-
fui collection It viii be shown after arrahts-
;uenf by the new director of the museums, Gen
eraI Niox in that part OF the Invalides pa4ace
hitherto given ZIP TO the old pensioners. 40 as
position has been adopted with regard TO the
latter They are TO retain their small pensions
but VIII lose tie free lodgings rations and other
advantages which they enjoyed, and neither the
government nor the Legislature seems disposal
TO contribute any money in order 20 provide
them with quarters either ct the Castle OF VIM
cennes or elsewhere. Yet the name of tho IN
vaiides which the palace on the banks of the
Seine has borne for some three hundred years,
will remain TO recall to their countrymen their
services and their somewhat scurvy treatment
long after they have disappeared.
Although Don Alfonso, brother Of the Spanish
pretender Don Carlos. and president of the in
ter71ational league against duelling, is
of nearly sixty, he performed the other day a
feat at which many a younger man would have
hesstated. His wife, Dona Maria of the Shows,
heroine OF the last Carlist war and Infanta of
Portugal, his sister-in-law. the widowed Arch
were driving In the neghborhood of his castle in
upper Austria when the horses SHE'D and then
boited. the coachman being thrown from the
box Don Alfonso happened 10 be near. and
managed with wonderful agility to leap from a
hank CT earth into the carriage 1t wa. dash
Ing By him. crept on to the box. loaned over tho