The sun., 1909-06-05
HIPPOLYTE CHAUCHARDDEAD
PARIS STOREKEEPER PLANNED
HIS OWN FUNERAL.
Had Elaborate Vault and Comm Ready
Set Aside $4,000 for Obsequies
Owner OF the Louvre Stores Great
Art Coilector--His Sacred CARPET.

Had Elaborate Vault and Comm Ready
Set Aside s4O,OOO for Obsequies
Owner OF the Louvre Stores Great
Art Collector--His Sacred Carpet.
Special Gable Despatch to TIE sun.
PARIS, June 4.-Hippolyte FRANCOIS AL
fred Chauchard, the multimillonaire
owner OF the Louvre department stores.
Is dead at the age OF 81 years. He owned
a priceless collection OF pictures which,
it is hoped. he has left TO the French ma :
ton.
He owned a Gobelin carpet for which
he paid $500 900 and on which he allowed
nobody to step except himself.
1t is reported that he has bequeathed
81. 100000 to M. Calmette. editor Of the
Figaro. as a token OF friendship.
In anticipation OF his death NJ. Chau-
chard had his tomb constructed con-
siderable time ago. 1t Is a sunken vault
in Pere Lachaise Cemetery. and massive
monument covers the site. Only the bust
OF himself is lacking. A sculptor has been
working on it for three years, but it Is not
yet quite finished.
Two years ago NJ. Chauchard had his
coffin built. 1t is work OF art. II is
constructed OF aromatic woods and deco
rated with hand chiselled bronze plaques.
Its cost was $4,000; that Of the tomb, ex-
elusive OF the bust. was about $4,000 1t
is said that the dead mans will sets aside
the sum Of $40 900 for the expenses OF his
funeral. properly so called.
The ceremony is to be most stately.
After two days of lying in state in NJ.
Chauchard's late home the body will be
placed upon a magnificent funeral car and
will be taken in procession through the
streets ofParis. Four thousand employees
OF his business establishments dressed in
mourning and preceded by 200 outdoor
tilion. will attend It Mourning coaches
in the style of Louis XIV. are to be pro-
vided for all the friends and relatives
invited to the funeral. The drivers
are to wear state costumes with silver
epanlets, and behind each coach are to
be two footmen in gala costume. includ-
ing cooked hats and knee breeches. Even
special costumes, including Girondin
hats Of black felt Every person officially
taking part in the funeral pageant is
to wear white kid gloves,
The funeral services arc to he held in
the Madeleine, because the parish church
VI lIe ueCedteu IN not blIIClSntIY large.
The clergy Of the two parishes are to
take part and the choir is to be reinforced
by the best voices obtainable froie the
Opera and full orchestra.
From the Madeleine the funeral cor
tege will proceed to Pere Lachaise. OF
which the entire entrance portico will
be draped with black. Fourteen mutes
will carry the coffin to the tomb and will
place it on n catafalque above the en-
trance to the vault. Then all the invited
guests will be drawn up in line in front
Of it and eulogiums will he pronounced
from tribune especially built. Several
orators are to be secured to pronounce
panegyrics. With these the ceremonies
will come to an end, the body being low
cred to its last resting place and the tomb
sealed.
At the time when these elaborate ar
rangements OF NJ. Chauchard were first
announced in Paris it was prophesied
that one considerable hitch would arise
when the employees Of the Pompes
Funebres. the French official funeral
monopoly, were required TO shave OF
their mustaches to conform to the
Louis XIV. style. These adornments are
part OF the stock in trade Of the Partisan
croque- -morts. and it was thought prob
able that something amounting to a
strike would result il they were called
upon to mutilate the adornments with
which nature has endoWed them