Show DEATH DETH OF A FRENCH NOVELIST j Count Xavier Xa de the popular popular lar Trench French novelist died recently at Passy after a faw fw ow days' days Illness iness ss brought brough broughton broughon on by Influenza The deceased who wh was 78 years of age was one of th the most successful writers of fiction in iii France and enjoyed immense popular t ty In early life he entered politics bU bUso W so soon n deserted that pursuit for the niO mote mor congenial fields of literature In the th tort four forty four years between 1847 and the produced n Count de fewer than novels and plays ji |