VANITY OF VANITIES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 245, 11 January 1878, Page 15

VANITY OF VANITIES.

SK'^'hT^V 65 ? 8 a f° a cobbler fr om Provence landed in Cairo and became boot-maker by appointment to Said Pasha M Way for this was the '• souter's* name, soon rose in the fevSir rf XX?" nf He^ asane^nioly funny Frenchman, full of wit, and some, thing of a clown and contortionist to boot. With Said's hek> he mlmSfn^^^r'v^ «»* ktriPwr, a financial and a milhonnaire. He took to speculating on Egyptian stocks, and ultimately became Egypt's financial' representativeVon, the continent SrfSW" T° c in 1 - 860 ' he as Weired for the sake of KoSy and wealth and very privately, in some respectable houses. ' AtcS NiZf,^ llol7^ 11 b 7^ c band - The ® m P eror sent Sra down to Nismes, as an official candidate. Guizot's friend's prayed for Wen not to ram down fire and brimstone on the town. Bravay had blen twice rejected before this happened, by the Corps Legislative to which Emperor to accept him the third time he applied for admission ?Sld a Si Waß Pr - mpt - d ! M ' BraVay t0 l^t to' tL &&pc' ece r0;r 0 ; a gold coffee service, inlaid with gems tfnd other knick-knacks Whenever Lord Palmerston gained an advantage at Sro Satnst Lessens, the Tuileries sent the cidevant cobbler to counteract it? M Brayay payed the shoe-heels of his valets with diamonds lined his carnage with gold and silver brocade, and shod his 'horses with an amalgam of precious metals. De Lesseps found in him a vSfaWe auxiliary for Bravay had studied the weaknesses of SaTd ft 2» and ?C? C T WOl>th *&'*" million SncS 1865 «»m I r 6 »c» c f ° T^ aue be &aa to give her wonderful cobbler the cold shoulder. He fell desperately in love with an Italian XtS Sto ntrVXS 1 ! 6 better *"** « t a o ss^ssrssi^s died ; and Bravay had to trust himself and the wreck of his forS to a servant who robbed him at Geneva, leaving ■him in the direst poverty. Death freed him the other day from hi! miW as he was oaatohis r talCommune - H^asgoingtherftoobtainlere toom the mayor, who was his friend, to settle down into a wayside ,^T US - °- U Brava y\to^tone, which a quondom MenY h£ msenbed the words; "Vanity of Vanities. All fc