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Show ADMIRERS OF BALZAC HUNT FOR TELESCOPE Special Cable to The Tribune. PAK1S. Oct. 12. At a time when admirers ad-mirers of Balzac arc coiK-cntml about Hits future of his house, wbleli lias been transformed Into a museum, ono of the papers recalls that somewhere In tho ministry of tho Interior is a telescope which for a Ions time belonged l the author of "Pcrc C.orlat." It would bo inleresliuc: to recover this telcscone. on which rionore do Ualzac. with his mania for exaggeration, licapcd culogl- The Icluscopc was in possession of ttal-::(ic'i! ttal-::(ic'i! widow at the time of the Franco-German Franco-German war. ' During the. siege of Paris; Mine, de Balzac's villa at Vllleuueve i Saint Georges was Invaded by the enemy. en-emy. When pence was signed H'O eases containing various articles, which had been "found" by the Gorman in the Parisian suburbs. Wi.-ro received at the ministry of the inlerlur. Tho telescopo llgilred among them. Mine- le Bclzao was Informed of its k-covery. k-covery. But she declined to take back the object which tho Germans had stolen from her. "l do not ueeept the restitution restitu-tion of my telescope by the German government. gov-ernment. ' she said. So the telescope was put somewhere In the mlnlstrv of llu-Interlor. llu-Interlor. Lovers of the novelist hope that some, day It will find Its way to the Bulzac museum. |