Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — French Funerals. [ARTICLE]

French Funerals.

There are nine classes or grades of funerals, the most expensive of which costs, nominally, 8,000 francs, and the ninth a few francs only. The seventh, which is usually chosen by the working people, can be had for about sls. The hearse is decorated with cotton fringe, and there is no mourning carriage, though one can be had for 22 francs. The religious servloe costs In addition $4. Few persons avail themselves of the eighth and ninth grades, which cost almost nothing, preferring either the semi-gratnitous funeral or that entirely gratuitous, which present nearly the same external signs of luxury, and to the public eye are quite ae creditable.— San Francisco Chronicle.

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