RELICS OF THE REVOLUTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 8

RELICS OF THE REVOLUTION.

INTEEESTING SAIE IN" PARIS. There - was an ;'in{erestihg 'day ..to bo rooms' at. tho Hotel Srouot and at the .Galerie Georges in Paris.- 'At. the!.-Hotel! Droudt, -where. the .-Sopiety ,of Auctioneers. ;is .established, the upper floor was crowded from 1 one' "d'clock-in the afternoon for the" .'sale! of -. different .objects;, contaiued!'in ' the 'coUectionVof-.,thb;:late;Mi-iForgeroh. ;One, of the first articles-.terbe .submitted was. a guillotine without :i :the' knife,' , but,-- a ''Bumbtine''- , -.with , ; m'ade for. ■' some -provincial' mayor"; in 1791;- and was used for 'the execution of ha»f. the inhabitants of a countryside.'- Its first owner: find- user .is now said"to liavo -been mentally deficient or diseased. He used to; appear -at poLitical' raeetings - in: Paris stripped') to'-the exceptional interest which was taken : in the machine was due to the rarity'of'such, an object. : Ati the '■ Restoration,' -if; not before,: almost every ' guillotine was -'destxoyed;-. - This one;; .hbwOT&V' i tr&tpiit'aTifV;iD'.'Bi'-pirret'in..the'. town : hall;; ana 'discovered until 50 years-. Bgo. Then '..it ~was -sold for X4B. .On-December 4 it was sold for rathermore than !£36 to the .owner of a popular cafe':.'concert.lt ,is! to; Tie, exhibited songs are to-be written about it, and are to be sung in front of-it. .;-j ■; ./ But..whilst!the^sale,.of. this, .'object appealed-; to' a.section; otherT objects were put up which;had>great interest for all students of 'the French Revolution.- ;The collection,''"indeed,"was! bneVdfrthe. most'. complete, of its kind,': and of the prices 'show that the! memory' of; the great' Revolution ia "held in little less esteem to-day-than it.ever,was." The following were some of-the' priiies^'-realised:—... -. - £ s. d! A • ring containing . a few .haira of Louis XVI 40 0 11 Mirabeau'fl ' death-mask l '>..i...... . 40- 0 /0 One of Rousseau's armchairs 18 0 0 A. pack of cards, in which the f.V' i;;:. king 'of clubs ~ was. Jjean '• Jacquos Rousseau 5 0 C Block of carved 'stone taken .. - : from the - ruin3'. of the. • . ■'! •j Bastille. -...... .17 0 t Camp bedstead of • General •; Moreiiu — 9 0 CDecorations taken, from the. .bed ' >!: ; - used by Napoleon in tho • ;. ' - Italian, campaign J2 0 0 ■ A key rto the Bastllf- 1 10 0 'A'-plairi'ljock'";s{one; coining • from tno'ivalls of. the Bas--.: ."■'!' . tille HO 0 Mario Antoinette's clock 8;0 • 0 0 Phrygian bonnet - o ; 10 0 -Plain drinking, glass,-"engraved;' :• / "Liberte, egalite,' fraternite :' |8 0 0 But these-prices, high. as. 'they', were, were nothing compared' with:.thoso given at the'closing-iday of the Polovtscff sale. The I .' chief items'.' to!- Ue: 'disposed'; of.; were the Flemish Bcaavais and Gobeline tapestries. -

•<. ;• ;--r- & - A tapestry fire, screen ' ,766 Flomfsh tapestries,,illustrating the ' history ofTobias ..; 980 Three Beauv.=iis'/ tapestries,■'' after ~ the- the designs . of. Duplessis . •...2,960, 2,600 and 2,800 Four • small ' Gobelins tapestries, ■after' the' designs of Gozette ... 15,0-10 Four Beauvais tapestries, after., the '' : ; designs of/Boucher,, 17,400, 5000, . . *5000, and ......... - 9,000 Landscape. by Diaz —. 2,0W Portrait .by > Groom 3,3 ; 2 Louis .XV,;:clock|.. v ..~-. r .. v ..."---. 1,360 Grandfather clook of Louis VX ' ' style 2,520