ROBESPIERRE'S HEAD.
DOUBTS CAST TOON A PARIS TREASURE. The Carnavalet Museum in Paris has been for a few days past the proud possessor of Robespierre's head in wax (saye the "Daily News" of March 27). This treasure was bequeathed to it by the eldest son of Jules Simon, and was believed to be a cast falien by the architect Pallay of Robespierre's head after execution. The mask is a terrible thing to behold, with its bleached nostrils, its closed eyes, and shattered jaw.
A Belgian, 51. Camille. Lianme, .now comes forward and gives the history of the head. It was niade in 1878, he de-olares,-from the testimony of" documents which he has himself collected, by a German artist, named Maurice Castan, who lived in Brussels. Castan owned a museum of waxwork figures, and at the same time was a clever sculptor. In 1880 he Rave the head to It. Liaume, who sent it, two years later, to Charles Simon, to ■figure at an exhibition of Revolutionary relica at Lille. The mask, excited intense .interest, and Charles Simon was so loth to return it to 51. Liaume that the latter made- him a present of it; and when 51. Simon was appointed chief of the secretarial service of the Senate, Robespierre's head was oroudly exhibited, first in his drawingroom at the Luxemburg, whence it passed to the Carnavalct JJujcum.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1131, 19 May 1911, Page 6
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