| Show ro hoverty Por erty verty C contrary arary to what is supposed by many M ernest renan left little private fortune to his family so much so is thic the case that mine ren renan intends U t sell bell the library of her deceased husband while awaiting the national pension which parliament will make no cifa difficulty in in granting her 31 berthelot the lifelong friend of renan says that the hattei left the world almost as poor as he wat wa on the day when he quitted saint sulpice in order to face the struggle for existence renan had the same disdain fol foi money per se towards the end of his career that he had bad when he said to ta the i imperial pew mini minister ter who offered him a lucrative post sit tecum tua pecuniary pe cunial all he be wanted was sufficient to enable him to pursue puisne ids his studies in ease and comfort As a professor of the college of franck franc re eenan had francs or 2400 a y year from which 5 per cent was deducted in ia order to form a pension As director ol of the establishment he bo had 60 yearly and rooms 80 also as fees for attending committees and EGO 60 for attendances at the institute of france on the whole M berthelot estimates that frenans official emoluments amounted to francs a year or he had sold all A rights iu in his literary works to his bis raal publishers and had to live for ciany many years on what he be earned by writing these revelations about M frenans private means are made by M berthelot in in or der to do away with the notion that aa writ writer er and a functionary his friend had made a large fortune paris cor london telegraph |
