Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1912 — Love Not Severed By Death [ARTICLE]

Love Not Severed By Death

Instances, Not Too Well Authenticated, Where Affection Has Existed Beyond the Tomb. Each year during the month of May, a number of romantic persons, usually lovers, visit the grave of Abelard and lleloise, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Paris and place on it a tribute of flowers. , The bodies of these noted unhappy lovers were originally buried at Tours, and were removed to Pere la Chaise in 1800. Helolse survived Abelard 21 years, and the Chronicle of Tours reports that when the tomb of Abelard was opened for the body of Heloise, Abelard held out his hand to welcome her. This legend has been approved by a French author, who gives other like instances, one of a senator at Dijon, who, having been buried 28 years, opened his arms to embrace his wife when she was lowered into the same tomb. The politeness of French husbands, their tender conjugal civilities.

have been conceived by everyone, but they must not be permitted to carry off these posthumous honors as a monopoly, nor must the sex feminine for an affection that extends beyond death. It is related that Queen Margaret of Scotland, many years after death, when it was found necessary to remove her body from DunfermIlne abbey, where it lay beside her husband. King Malcolm, refused to budge. The body was so heavy there was no moving It. The monks were at a loss what to do; when one of them suggested that the queen refused to be moved without her husband. Malcolm was then raised and immediately the body of the queen resumed its ordinary levity and the removal was made.