Show 10 henawi poverty contrary to what is supposed by many SL 31 ernest renan left little private fortune to his fan family lily so much so is this the case that ame mme renan benan intends tt tl sell bell the library of her deceased husband while awaiting the national pension which parliament will make no difficult 5 in granting her 11 berthelot the lifelong ion friend of renan says that the hattei left leiane the world almost as poor as he was wai on the day when he quitted saint sulpice in order to face the struggle for exist ence renan eenan had the same disdain foi money per se ee towards the end of hh career that he had when ho said to the imperial minister who offered him a lucrative post sit tecum tua pe cunial all he wanted was sufficient to enable him to pursue his studies in ease and comfort As a professor of the college of fraucis renan eenan had francs or a year from which 5 per cent was deducted in order to form a pension As director ol of the establishment he had M 80 yearly and rooms ao 80 also as fees for attending committees and 60 for attendances at al the institute of france on the 1 21 berthelot estimates that Re benaris naris 0 official f emoluments amounted to 15 francs a year or he had sold bold all rights in his bis literary works to his publishers lib and had to live lire for many years year 10 on n what he earned by writings writing the revelations about M frenans private means are made by M Derth berthelot elot in or der to do away with the notion that a a writer and a functionary his friend had made a largo large fortune paris cor london telegraph |