A FAMOUS PARISIAN CHINAMAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1452, 10 January 1887, Page 2

A FAMOUS PARISIAN CHINAMAN.

I The Paris correspondent of the Daily Nein writes : — " Jin Jun Lung, a Chinese w_il known to all the iiterary world of Paris, died on Saturday, November IStb. of pleurisy, and was buried on Monday. The invitations sent to his friends to attend hi. foueral announced that he departed this life S-reugthened with the sacraments of tbe church. He wat attended m his fast illness by Alexandra Duma;.. Mdrae. Ju ii h Guutier, and his p trish priest, M. Dumas visiting him often severa' •! _ o<_ a day, aud seeiag that he wanted f^r othln_« Jin Jon Lung was one of the first Ohnese who ever oame to P*ris. tie was left oehlnd as a youth at an h t 1 by a merchant, who was tuning him to London from Canton. Theophile G-tutier picked htm up and thought of u.ili.ing him _s a :o>vant, but the Chinese waif save proof of ouch high breeding and int.lligenoe that he became oue of the family, and t «nght Chinese to Judith and Estelle Gauti .r, and many Chinese) handlcrafts and arts Ho beoame such a good. French scholar as t> be able to furnish various playwrights and novelists, who laid the action of their dramas or. novels iv China, wita not only hints but whole pages and chapt.ro. Indeed, it was he wno la^d on the local color m nearly all the wor.s of fiction- dealing with the Flowery Land which have come out here since ho was adopted by Theophile G*utier. '_fcer the death of his earliest friend ho almost found a home m the De Oaaaa^rmo family. 'He was amiable and affectionate He spoke the Chinese of the l'terary cla*a at Pekin. Tae whole Ohloes* Embassy, and all the pupils of the Oriental Sohool, of which hs was a professor, as well as a delegation of the S.olete des Gens da Lettres, of which ha was a member, folio ved his coffia to the gravis 81 A.es.->udto D .mv» was oia ol thoie who delivered funeral orations."