Deseret Evening News | 1901-07-06 | Page 11 | Rostand's Pending Fate

lI 11 iu a rm 1 TI Will ill nd have time the nerve to occupy occupy py a seat sent which b hears ars the fatal number II 18 This Thill Is III a 1 question which ninny many Frenchmen are now no asking and the HIP men rea reason son soil Is because e It II I is regarded ns as S rail call rally contain certain that flint t the time dramatist 1 will soon OOn be member of oC the French academy and II nIl If It so 90 he will moat probably be he h assigned to lu a sent which bears bur the timber number 13 U UThe There Thera The are nt at 0 I present four limplY empty seats seals In the academy end and 1111 they the ar are respectively Ip numbered numb 26 6 7 T IS U and anel U H Of these Uiese ht the Iho lift fist two 10 have hare ha already ben been awarded o MM I 1 J Faguet and Her ller and they tho will at an early earl date take possession of oC them th m amid appropriate ceremonies The sent seat numbered 1 13 was wa that of oC the time Viscount Henri de dt Hornier and that thai numbered d K 14 was that of oC the Due Duc de Broglie The number 13 It however appears more titan once on this occasion for lor itIs It ItIs Is Ia pointed out that M hi mlle hone I Faguet will be the thirteenth occupant of ot the seat lI nt numbered 25 Superstition Is potent even In the twentieth century and th there re are many man persons Iler who have hae a u foreboding that III ill luck In III some ome form will come to the new members of the academy