Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-25

of these the Theirs chapel is what you
might call an archetype.
The former president of the French re-
public reposes under what seems like a
vast and noble Renaissance villa. Above
magnificent bronze doors the Genius Of
Patriotism is carved by Chapu. The in
terror has but one great room-a chapel
with an altar.
These tomb-chapels give to Pere Lachaise
the look of veritable city. with its streets
and side streets. Those of the Carrots, the
Dues de Morny, the Chagot family (who
started the Creusot foundries), the Bour-
bon-Contis, the Crussol-Uzes, the Meniers,
the de Ycabas. the Boitel and Rossgnols-
to mix up republicans, Bonapartsts, old
aristocrats and rich foreigners-are two
story high structures whose fronts look
like the wings of palaces. There is always
a noble doorway with open-work bronze
doors that show the altar inside. Often
the interiors are filled with flowers. The
photograph of the deceased is often promi
nently placed on the altar, and frequently
familiar objects of the dear departed, such
as children's toys, lie huddled in corner!
When monument is put up by the fam
lily it takes this universal chapel form.
When it is put up by the government or
a subscription 1t becomes more artistic and
statue-like. Such is the monoith of the
artist Chaplain, one side Of which, in
high relief, life-sized nude female mourns
Such is the lovely figure Of Pain by
Marcel Brouillet, seated disconsolately at
the mouth of artificial cavern.
Such, too. is the utterly modern marble
to the sculptor, Falguiere, by Marqueste
No one would know 1t for tombstone
And there is even a new art specimen set
up to Ernest Coniot, that cannot be de-
scribed because it looks like nothing else
on earth-a pile Of polished granite cut in
Art Nouveau curvesi-
Full of Artists.
Indeed, Pere Lachaise, the Westminster
Abbey of France, is full of artists, as it Is
full Of musicians Ingras, Delacroix, Co.
rot, Paul Baudry, Lenior ct Gavin. TIL. Cou-
ture, Lebrun, Cognet, the sculptors, Duret
| and Pradier, Daubigny, and Gill, the carl
caturist. Beneath Daubigny's bronze bust
| hangs great marble palette. Corot also
has his bust in bronze above a simple
| tombstone arc. Paul Baudry, on the other
nand, reposes beneath tremendous compo-
sition, his bronze bust crowned with a
wreath by great bronze winged Renown,
and his marble sarcophagus mourned over
| by another life-sized bronze female.
| Such are the two other allegorical monu-
ments of Eug. Spuller, who quit Paris
| with Gambetta in balloon during the
siege, and Of Charles Floauet. the states
man. whose whole progress In life was
| made by his crying to the Emperor Alexan-
| der: ''Vive la Pologne. Monseigneur" 1t
was counted to him for righteousness ever
afterward by republican France. Here
Marianne herself In bronze seems to be
climbing the golden stairs hunting for him
beneath his bust with crown of laurel
| 1t is world in itself. Here lie Napo-
| Icons marshals who died so curiously
close to 1921, the year he gave up the ghost
at st. Helena-Peringnon Qs1S). Suchet
$500, de Lauriston QS26, Kellerman $500,
Lefebvre $500. Massena QS1O, Foy Q82D.
Here lies Gen. Gourgaud, who accompanied
Napoleon to st. Helena. who lived on till
1852. and who has the distinction of a two
stored tomb-chapel
Here lies Crespin. who invented the in
stallment business. Here lies Col. La Bedo-
yere the first colonel to declare for Napoleon
| on his return from Elbe shot for an ex-
ample in 1915. Here lies Lavalette Ma
poleon's director of posts condemned to
death at the same time. and escaped in
his wife's clothes. Both are equally dead
nowi
Resting Place Of Monte Carlos
Founder.
Here lies Ed Blanc. the founder of the
Monte Carlo gambling. Here lies Victor
Noir. who was shot dead by Prince Pierre
Bonaparte in his own house. Here lies
Felix Faure. the president who died so
mysteriously.
Here lies Arago, the astronomer; Dulong.
| the chemist; Raspail, the democrat: Cham
pollion. the Psychologist; Beranger, the
| song-writer and poet: Godfrey St Hilaire.
| the naturalist; Laplace. the author of the
| nebular theory: Blanqui, the revoutionist:
Allen Kardec, who introduced spiritualism
| in Paris from America; Michelet, the his
| torian; Eugene Delacroix. the painter, and
Anatole de la Forge. the defender of st.
Quentin in 1870. and chiefly remarkable
| here for the extraordinary bronze statue of
him by Barrias. He waves his sword In A
lively manner for a tombstone.
Here lie the mighty dead of France-and
well-to-do. because 1t costs little fortune
] to repose in a perpetual concession of the
| Westminster Abbey Of Paris Yet rich or
poor, 1t matters little in the face of BAR
tholome's wonderful composition .To the
Deadr
1t Is an enormous section Of wall Its two
professions of dramatic figures are life
i size.
|! In this blank wall there is an open door
| And no one know what Is behind the
| wall.
| A young man and woman are seen mass
| ing the dread threshold. She holds out her
| arm to touch his shoulder-to give coura re
/ or receive it.
Behind them on either side, come the pro-
cessons. Some come willingly, bent and dis
| abused Of life. Some grovel in terror with
1 their faces in the dust. Some kneel Some
stand stoically waiting. Others hide their
1 faces in their hands.
They are about to pass behind the wall.
STERLING HELLO,
| Bacon-"And you say he is a patient and
persistent fisherman"