Show French Envoy to Vatican Succumbs OUCHY sw Switzerland d July 24 4 11 1 P Abbe Abbe canonic counselor of or the French embassy at Vatican City died today at the age of or 70 He had laid been ill for Cor some time but retained consciousness to the end I talking just before he died with VI VI- comte de Fontenay French ambassador ambassador ambas to the Holy See A benediction was WIlS pronounced by bj- Cardinal pap papal secretary of state The abbe was a member of the Ocr Ocr- man reichstag from Alsace before the war serving as leader of or the Al Al- cation French group croup In that body Since resumption of or French diplomatic diplo matic relations with the Vatican he ho had been attached to t the embassy |