A FRENCHMAN'S GIFT TO GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5018, 29 September 1887, Page 3

A FRENCHMAN'S GIFT TO GERMANY.

A STRAvax bequest of land .has just been left by a Frenchman to the German Government v for the purpose of forinding a. German ~ eetUemenf. How this strang* beqnet&eame to be made is explained by the following story, supplied by the Paris correspondent of the 'Daily News':—M Bareiller, ex-mayor of Roiasise-le-floi, a country town situate in the Seiwet. Marne, not far from Paris, wai sentenced to a year's imprisonment in 1886 for baying find at and wouded a workman who pretttd bin for payment of a debt of 10«. |C. BanUkr who wm oiterlUy of w*n|oms«bU

liember^wiM'arive^ -■ y, ■iiiig'seutenee'.;-'' 3During-'His?4e|BT|tidii*; <-< : r thia\ sepße^of: D^ern'esß^^^epJ^^ -/'':". -: '•"' account of his impotence to gifevenl! to it, adied to the hardabips of prison* life. His constitotionb«cameshattered| and the disappointment of uot receiv-^ :\ ing a pardon on July 14 wronght an _;' alarming change in his condition. From that day he could eat no food^ s and on the 20th instant he died at the Melun Hospital, where he had been] /- taken some) hours previously. This illfated man was a landowner of good means, being worth aboat £24,000. He was a cultured and gifted scholar. Shortly before his trial he had offered, ' as a free gift to the department of Seine-et-Marne his property at Boistise on condition that it was cade a farm- ' ing settlement; but as he stipulated that he shoald manage the estate during his lifetime his offer was rejected, because it was feared' his ungovern- ■■ able temper might eventually bring trouble on the Department. He made a will in 1885, opened aftar his death, whereby he bequeathed the land to the State for the same obj«ot. During hif imprisonment he received •an abhorrence of his country, and he drew up two willb at different periods by which he has left his property of Boissise to Germany, represented by the Crown Prince, with the objdct of establishing there a settlement of young Germans.