Mme. Lenoir Jousserau, who recently died in Paris, left her fortune — 10 5 000,000fr.-to the Paris hospitals. Mme. Lenoir was the widow of a very remarkable man. He was proprietor ot the Cafe Do Foy, in the Palais Boyal, from 1815 to 1830. When the. allies entered Paris after Waterloo, and for many years after that, the Cafe* de Foy was the one fashionable Cafe in Paris'. Blucher took coffee there, and Bonapartist officers used to. resort to it to challenge' the officers of the allied armies. Lenoir had formed a splendid collection of works of art and articles of Tertu, remarkable especially for its snuff-boxes. The whole of the collection is left to tho Louvre. St. Louis, U.S., calls its great bridge the " buckle of the nation's iron belt." ... It is good ground for divorce in St. Loui3 if a wife finds 113 lore letters in her husbnnd's TionlrfiL
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1890, 23 January 1875, Page 2
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