Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-09

they say, here is an object-photograph
and autograph. Only such a correspon-
treasured them between his two greatest
friends and contemporaries. Alexandra
Dumas and Georges Sand"
We stood again before the Lincoln
photograph.
There is no example OF Lincoln sign
ing in that way" spoke up the editor.
almost decisively.
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''Yet, look. It is a dedication" said.
"'Ab. Lincoln-to Victor Hugo" a man
like Hugo would never have forged a
dedication, that you may be sure OF. And
was Lincoln a man to send his photo
graph to an iiiustrious contemporary
yet without motive deprive It OF half its
honor-by a clerks scrawlr'
NO." said the editor Lincoln would
not have done that. You must be right
1t must be his autograph-and much flows
from It, He must have used that print
ing hand to make IL formal in a reminis-
cence OF the lapidary style"
We moved on slowly.
1t was pm. and twilight growing
Guards In uniform were shooing out the
public NJ. Sueur. the courteous janitor.
was talking English to American tourists.
anxious TO secure the Lincoln post card
Sueur is one OF those self-improved
years association with men like Georges
Cain OF the Carnavalst and Louis Met
man of the decorative arts has given
taste and knowledge above his technical
rank He is, de facto. the custodian.
AS the house emptied, he strolled with
us in the darkening place.
The legendary Hotel st. Pol stood
just across there. Up to 1853 the kings
lived in the Cite. but when the socialists
under Etienne Marcel broke into the
Louvre. murdered two ministers and
made him wear the red and green cap
of the republican chief, Charles took 4
to the woods. Protected by the water
mems syndicate. he set up his court out
here, where IL was almost country Little
by little the dark and bloody Hotel -.
Pol grew up. an agglomeration OF high
walled buildings and gardens in a wood"
Where the king kept his lions?" said
the editor.
Eyes. and Isabel of Bavaria did her
naughtiness. Across the square. the
Chancellor d'Orgemont built a stately
palace of many turrets in 1880. which.
in time, fell into royal hands. 1t was the
famous Hotel des Tourelles, in the great
park of that name"
Where the Duke Of Bedford kept his
peacocks?" asked the editor. QIe was q
well-read editor.
Exactly. Louis XXI made Ii his Paris
residence. and Louis XII-his young
English wife forced him to wait till
noon for dinner, which he had always
eaten at 10 am. 1t KILLED him. His sue
cessors, Francis / and Henri III only
came to the Toureles for tournaments
Montgomery killed Henri III in one
such?"
''On this very spot. The king wore
Diane de Poitiers' colors. Catherine de
Medicis his widow, shifted the court
back to the ste and I'd tore s down the the
horse market where the duel OF the Mig
mons was fought.
Right here?"
Right here. Henri Nv, coming after the
dead Valois, was a business man and
builder. He had the great speculative
idea to make this fallen quarter the
handsomest of Paris Entirely at his
own expense he built the row beside
U.S."
And the higher. central building On
terlaced BIB above the roof was to be
his residence"
Ah
Exactly. He carved out the rest OF the
square among his great courtiers on con-
dition that they erect houses at once. ex-
actly according to the royal architects
plans. He was assassinated before the
square was finished. Five years later IT
was opened with splendor. on occasion OF
the marriage fetes of young Louis Kills
sister to the heir OF Spain.
We walked In the darkness. amid rare
gas jets.
What public and domestic events this
place has SEEM" exclaimed the janitor.
What noble Journeys. proud duels.
amiable dates OF love and firt! What
grace -ul creatures inhabited these man
siohs: What sumptuous furniture. what
treasures OF luxury hid in them! What
ancades! Richelieu, Condo. Corneille, Mo-
leie walked here a hundred times. I
6 Re the shades OF Nine. Scudery and
Artemise, Cristolls, Glicerie and Roxane"
And we catch the subway"
Straight through the Henri ~ pa
Wilton" STERLING HEIIIG q