Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1881 — Last Love of Marie Antoinette. [ARTICLE]

Last Love of Marie Antoinette.

M. Leopold Double warta Parisian , celebrity. He was called the “last lover of Marie Antoinette.” He was , so distinguished on account of the re- . ligious devotion with which he hon- ‘ ored the memory of the ill-fated queen. His home was one of the ■ largest and most precious museums ' in the French metropolis. A room In it was entirely filled with such objects as the French queen used in her ’ daily life, from the ivory cross before which she knelt at night before re- , tiring to the Venitian hatuf-mir- . ror she invariably consulted oh her awakening. Leopold Double, however. was not exclusive in his love for Mane Antoinette. Two other rooms In h|s spacious hoyse were arraigned as the boudoirs of Mme. Duthe and Mme. de Pompadour, every article in them being the same as had formerly ornamented the boudoirs of those celebrated women. M. Double was perbans the most intelligent bric-a-brac collector in Paris. His taste was only inferior to his modesty and to the patience With which he pursued his object. He began to collect articles

of virtu when he was still at college. Later he became an Qffiper of art|llery and . .aid-de-camp to Marshal Souls during his Spanish campaign. One day they were surprised by the Spaniards in tt small village which was impossible to be defended. A retreat was ordered. There was no time to lose, for the cannonade was already becoming too fierce. Captain Double alone liad for that delay might cost him hjs life. e continued calmly to examine some Moorish vases he intended to purchase, and did not move until he had concluded the bargain. When, two hours later, he joined the staff be was on foot, having slung the vases across the saddle. ♦.«» The main building of the Centennial exhibition is advertised for sale, and proposals will be received for the

OXIHmImOU Of the shell of da’ WeFB lefl l%v # g bigorgan were purchased by** Phlfa* from the (Sfitenril’al commission the {•cedes aud show structures of the foreign department, and persuaded American exhibitors to leave their goods and cases standing for advertising purposes. . Concerts, dancing and other forms of entertainment were deyfeedto attract the Philadelphia public, but the enterprise never paid expenses, and after many changes of maaagemetit collapsed not >»«,*«u underx heavy load of debt. The building was much too' big for a local fair. The visitor felt a-sense of loneliness and desolation which was enhanced if he remembered bow itlooked during the Centennial when thronged with tens of thousands of happy,'lnterested people. Besides.it was too far distant from the populous portions of the city to become a popular evening resort. If the New York World's Fair project had moved oft successfully, the gigantic structure, probably the largest in the world, might have found a better use than to be pulled down and used for old iron and lumber. s '