"TO WHAT BASE USES."
The discovery that a king's coffin plate was doing duty as a frying-pan was made in Paris a few weeks ago. The cirrator of a museum, while waiting in a restaurant for a meal, noticed on the wall a fryingpan of unusual shape. lie rubbed the soot o/F it and found an inscription that looked so interesting as to make him buy the pan. When it was properly cleaned it was found to bear the arms of France and Navarre and this inscription: —"Here lies the magnificent Prince, King Louis XIV., King of France and Navarre. Rcquiescat in pace." The explanation of the incident is that when the royal burial vaults in the Cathedral of St. Denis were rifled by the populace in 1793,, the plate was wrencheti from the coffin, fitted with a handle and turned into' a frying-pan. It is now in tho Cluny Museum. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9489, 12 May 1913, Page 6
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