Arizona republican., 1919-04-13


 chief, whose passions, aroused by her wondrous beauty, were so infuriated when she refused to submit to him that he ordered her execution, which waa effected on the 18th of January, 452. Germaine was declared the patron saint of the town. An iron cross has been placed on the spot of her execu- ton. Local tradition says that if an unmarried girl places a pin in the foot of the cross she will find a husband within the year. During the ninth and tenth centuries the Normans invaded Champagne, plundering and destroy ing the city of Bar in S99. These hosts were finally defeated in battle which took place between Bar and Chaumont Cat which place general headquarters is located) in 911, and driven out.
 At this time the city was owned by the bishops of Langres, but was under the political control of Champagne; in the thirteenth century the house of Champagne gained full control. In 12S4 the Countess Jeanne de Navarro. daughter and heiress of Count Henry III, ruler of Champagne, was married at the age of F to Philippe ", 15-year- old heir to the throne of France. The following year, upon his accession to the throne, Champagne became a part of the royal domain as a result of this marriage. A successor of Philippe, Charles V, made a present of Bar to Beatrice of Bourbonne, but the inhabi- tants protested against this and offered Charles 5000 guineas that they might remain under his control. Charles ac- cepted and withdrew his offer to Beatrice.
 However, in 1855, Charles VII, under the provisions of a treaty with the Duke of Burgundy, Philippe le Bon, gave Bar to Antoine de Crois, a court favorite. The inhabitants again purchased their freedom. and in 1915 Louis XIII ratified a decree directing that the city should never again be separated from the do- main.
 During the middle ages the fairs" of Bar were of great importance and fig ured among the six grand fairs of | Champagne two at Troyes, two at ] Provins, one at Bar/and one at Ligny.) These fairs started Tuesday preceding Lent and, lasting 70 days, ended on Thursday after Pentecost Merchants from Ypres, CaInbrai, Lyon, Barcelona and Florence brought their goods here. But during the Hundred Years War | and the religious wars of the sixteenth century these fairs slowly lost their 1 importance and finally, during the ten years plague Q636-1646) they were l discontinued. Starting about this l time the merchants and visitors to the fairs of Champagne started attending the fairs of Lyons, which still flourish. Tuesday morning.
 1 A good example of the type oi building of the 18th Century is still tC be seen at 107 Rue Rationale. It vii be noticed that the upper stories were built to extend over the sidewalks :. thereby affording shelter to pedes- trians as well as furnishing a place ! for the itinerant peddlers to sell theil goods. Old wood cuts show that al 1 houses on what is now the Rue Ma tionale are of this type.
 In the 10th century q wall was bull
 around the city, six feet thick anC twenty feet high, which remained un
 til early in the 18th century when i was destroyed by order of the king In 1860 the English under Edward II
 of England invaded the region ant
 destroyed that part of the city outsid
 of the walls. Twenty years after
 wards, the English invaded again un
 der the Duke of Lancaster and were re
 pulsed at Bar. Again in 1440 the tow
 was pillaged by Alexander, Bastart
 of Bourbon, but this invader was cap
 tured by Charles VII and thrown int
 the Aube tied in a sack. To aton
 for his crime against Bar sur Aube tn
 family of Alexander erected a smal
 chapel on the bridge connecting tn
 main part of the city with the out
 lying Faurbourge D'Aube from whic
 he had been thrown to his death, dedi
 cated to St. Nicholas. Both chape
 and bridge are still standing in goo
 condition.
 During the reign of Louis XVI, Bar
 sur -Aube was the scene of several in
 cidents of a scandal which is said {
 be one of the causes of the revolution
 Jeanne de Valois St. Remy. a lady C
 position living in Bar, at Is and
 Due d'Aube became the wife of Cour
 de la Motte, who was a popular mem
 Der of the court of Louis XVII. Th
 count erected a beautiful chateau pal
 of which is still in existence, 37 Ru
 NationaeI and established a residene there The countess de la Motte in
 duced the Cardinal de Rohan, an ad , mirer of the Queen, Marie Antoinett
 to purchase a necklace which th Queen desired, but that Louis XVI ha not the means to buy.
 , The cardinal sent the necklace | messenger to rendezvous in tt , Kings grounds to deliver the necklac ! The Countess de Ia Mote had prom ised to arrange for one of the queen l maids to be at the rendezvous to re . ceive the necklace but instead had ser ! a confederate, who. after receiving u necklace fled to England as instructe by the countess and sold the necklac ? Of course rumors of the affair reache