The daily sentinel., 1912-06-10

| boulevard theaters nave held tnelI
own with handsome door receipts.
! On the receipts of every theater in
Paris the city levies a tax for the
poor, this money being distributed
! by the society known as the Assist
ance Publique. The poor have ben
Gifted considerably from the increase
of revenue. In 1850 they obtained
only S13S,OOO, but in 1911 their ben
efits had jumped to s1,275,000.
The Inauguration OF the official
Harvard Foundation, calling for an
additional exchange Of professors be-
tween Harvard University and the
various French universities, marks
an important forward step in what
might be called the institution of a
foreign policy for the universities
of France The ministry of public
instruction has opened a special de-
partment devoted to finding out what
France may offer to the foreigner
who desires to study in France, and
to the practical establishment of
French instruction abroad. There
are $3.50 foreign students today in
French institutions OF learning, and
the courses of study of the universi-
ties at Rennes, Dijon and Lille have
been arranged to suit the needs of
the foreign students.
At Tours a special summer course
is to be arranged. and at the girls
college there a special department
will be opened for young women
from abroad similar to that which
exists already at the school at Ver-
sailles.
The other development is in the
propagation abroad of French uni
yersity influence. French professors
and teachers have been placed in
large numbers in various European
colleges, including Leipzig, Buda-
rest, st. Petersburg, and recently a
professor was sent to the Normal
College of New York.
This foreign policy" of the
French universities is also made pos
sible by such organizations as the
Alliance Franchise. the Franco
American committee. the French In
stitute of the United States, and, of
course, by the new relations between
Harvard and the French universities.
Other countries in which the French
| influence is spreading are Roumania,
Servia, Norway. Sweden and Chile.
| ht new iial Ndiu
| naliZes a movement to create even
! wider bonds of sympathy between
the United States and France. 1t is
planned to send French students to
the United States and the creation
of French museum at Harvard is
project of the near future.
|
BY the recent death of Madame
/ E1nnard Andre fhpra passaS npa of
| the most interesting figures in the
brilliant French society of the Sec
ond Empire. AS Mile. Nelly Jacque-
mart, she won fame as a portrait
painter. carrying all before her at
the Salons of 1868, 1869, 1870, and
at the Universal exposition of 1878.
| Among her best known works are
portraits of Marshal Canrobert, Pres
ident Theirs, General Palikao, Count
de Chambrun. Duke Decazes, Baron
G. de Montesquiou, Count de Saint
Armand and of a host of celebrities
of the period.
After her marriage to the finan-
cier, Edouard Andre, she ceased ex-
hibiting at the Salon and devoted
herself to completing her collection.
| which she made one of the finest in
Paris, comprising antiquities, bron-
zes. sculptures, ivories of the ogival
period. Limoges enamels, Hispano-
Moorish luster ware, Italian fayence,
middle-age and renaissance furniture
and very choice gallery of paint
ings, including excellent examples of
Rembrandt, Rubens, Vandyck, Jor-
daens, Vatican, Fragonard, Greuze
and many others.
| Madame Andre has left her Paris
mansion in the Boulevard Hauss-
mann. her country seat, the Chateau
de Chaalis, and her personal fortune,
amounting to more than $S,000,00O
to the Institute of France. BY the
terms of her will, s1,00O.000 is to be
devoted to the upkeep of the Boule-
ward Haussmann mansion and the
art treasures contained therein. An
other million is to be applied to the
upkeep of the Chateau of Chaalis
Finally, 100000 is to be distributed
by the institute in accordance with
certain private bequests. The re-
naming 100000 is to be devoted
to whatever purposes the institute
shall deem fit.