Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — A Great French Gambler. [ARTICLE]

A Great French Gambler.

Blanc, of Monaco, nas left 1,000,000 francs to the Church of St. Roch, 300,000 francs to the poor of the first arrondissement, 500,000 francs to the infirm priests of the Maria Theresa Asylum and 100,000 ffanes to the chapel of the Roquette prison, where criminals under sentence of death hear mass for the last time. He had the virtue to confess that it was by God’s own mercy he never passed that place <?f worship. It was his intention, if he died in Paris, to have been attended by the Abbe Crozes, chaplain of La Roquette, who attends assassins to the scaffold, and gives them a parting embrace before M. de Paris and his aides strap them to the swivelboard of the guillotine. His fortune in France and on the Riviera comes to 88,000,000 francs. The legacy duty of his Swiss estates amounts to something over 200,000 f?ancs. If Blanc had been the Duke of Wellington he could not have been buried with more solemn state. Blanc’s four unmarried children are the greatest catches going in the matrimonial market, and they are determined to marry into none but the noblest houses in Europe.— London Truth.