| Show Haven From Duns I Is Converted Into a Museum 1 Special Correspondence ARlit ARIS Jan P friends are re lit at Past t bestirring themselves to honor bONOr his hla memory by something more moret t than a tue Already the house I In which th the great author dIed baa ha beau wept swept sway y to make room IW modern requirements A fw few ye yeah more and II the house boull In which b be wrote hI his tin flu fluent ent lit masterpieces and drank the cUP of to the tho last t d dreg ha have followed This hl crowning m tu tune h he been averted thanks tu to Ih the initiative of 01 men like Ilk Paul SourcE Bourret J Jean and aad Maurice liar Barres who key ve headed beaded a movement to buy the little cottage at PUll Pasey where Balsac lived trim and un g 19 10 tm tern tI h Into the Mute Jb tries Museum T The 11 Halsey Balar does d nut nt vet t cone 11 trin very many man of u the II great shag list t this t Is only anI a nailer r of 01 I for bequests are afire aure to flow Itow In now that there I Is x It place to receive them 1 In the authors study are to toon be seen I on tb the wU wall quaint colored red prints ot of an all the heroes and berol heroines whose I fortunes h he described a sketch tell ot of I Balac by David ft Ann Angers a plaster cut cast ot of Rodin famous statuette of oC him an n original terra cotta bust buat by parquet df de the marble one OM ill 4 s1 at th the Balance hak ot In the form torm of 01 br padlock an insurance policy signed by hi ill Is about all U as yet et But under unter the Intelligent of t the Ibe M de moat mORt who Is II an enthusiastic N Nn 27 21 Rue Ruto I le certain to III become a literary shrine to which every v ry American visitor In Paris will make a pilgrimage It II w was In III tb the year r 1142 that Honor d de loaded with debt hunted down h by creditor but still Un ua Unbroken broken In spirit discovered the little lItI it II Ih the Rue at t Pay then a mere vIII w was an Ideal for a debtor In Inthe the first place It w was oft off UM the street the entrance to It being through a MUM house which fronting on OD Rue was wasas a as as It a drawbridge to a eastis This house being itself on the crest of oC the Ibe hill hili the cottage had been R built on a terrace laid out on the side aide of the tIte bill blU conic nil Hi to au 20 feet tet below so ao that access from t the he one to the other was only 1 11 1 down a double flight of stairs h opened on a small mall paved court courton on the Ihl opposite sloe Id ot of which stood tood the cottage In iii the form torm ot of a T r square The lun lung arm nn of tb the rectangle facing the COUI court WU was occupied by the en entrance trance hall ball the housekeepers room the kitchen and nd the thO the tha short arm rm looking on to the be by bedroom the salon the d dues legroom and Ia last t of Br all and farthest aw away from Irom dun dons and nd nut hi his study tudy FOR QUIET EXIT I Th Those was one more mor ad advantage vantage which this Ideal cottage cone COli nol the I least doubtless In the masters r e eyes Close 10 to the Ille was a flight of stain leading down mm 15 11 tt feet If to a paved court formed b by the inner angle Ie of 01 the T aquas wIth an silt nit oa o Rue Herton a narrow cutthroat all alley with high walk 11 on 1111 either Ido which wound along the lower side Ide of 01 the cottage and lId garden enabling th Phu to 10 reach lbs mal main road along 10 the batik of thu Seine Beia where 1 a P coach would t take ke him In a tw few met into Ib the elty or out to the woods wood Qt of St I Cloud Mud and Meudon as the cites tue might aub M be But the pavilion and tb the b hoes al aI aIry already ry ready had bad t their lr history WON before Belmo Bellao came cam tta then They bad base bunt built la In laa a 1763 U by the famous financier d de Ju who ho sold the property four years tIU later to M Dupla of Jean JD JeanJacques Jacques J Iu Ko u tams DupIn I thought It WOUld be an n Ideal retreat for hl hi prot th the beautiful lies Hu of thus tho l rile Tb 1451 tenant was Contal the Ille Ca tae Jt who crested created the role of 01 In the Ka d de ro rond wad nd many 1 u rt ate w was held bel in int Inthis t this hla little pavilion u outside the city elb were tell while noble bourgeois bead r b under the guillotines steel atI Much was tb the bou house In which Nn year ut of I t prod to toll toiL culls him t Walter Scott of Prone nc nut the W Wager r Scott of oC and d wt bet uI of characters std Mild truly there w was much that WM was lar also tR in the of tb lb two men spent lb Itt taller er years of his hll III life lei UI lb 0 leak luk ot of clearing IT II III I to Iv e w b be lit III the Ibe WI light of M a debt net III honor r ruined b by hI his 4 tur a print Cr r wad aM retired to Rile Ru In III the lb hope of nf phil hM dunning ata creditors flUor whilst dente la In lb hopes hu aNon to hI his I I b by hi hi 1 pan in t the ideate of f little study Iud l the garden with Ibo lh leer ller st hoe b l tet II end the wOO tl of and dl Clued is lb distance w the dr dressi III sown own of 01 white 1111 willi wit while silk and the She squall black velvet skullcap which tola but hl hi moUlt 1111 knew bow to atah for 11 hour IOU it Il da j jw lI IIi II Ir w feverishly the of paper one after the oth other on the ground round al a ahe he covered them with his hla fine small mall writing and with countless CUPS of at eert lie He never slept 11 during the night hours hourN fur for Feet and sleep durin during the day was UK oil all he could spare for tor nature such uch U as Ioor Relations Relation Cousin ou ln Pons Cousin Bette Bett M Mere cadet dI and In six alx yea Years were re written In that thai little study wilt whole duns were hammering at t the thedoor I door outside No human being not even veil twist with his naive tram coul could l stand land such a strain rain In 1041 he quItted Rue Ru for lor Ru Russia to marry Mme Man Manaka On bl his return I to Paris two tau ye years later hater he ha died worn wor i 51 I out al I It was 1 during residence at Pussy that Ihal an Incident occurred which I it t It lied hero ell rightly dIrected might I have bv had a I on the thet great t career r It w was a very adventure and II I not I think generally known At that time th the Marquis of Hertford an eccentric and Immensely wealthy English nor no had bad already ry taken up hie h real residence den in III Parl and aad had bad just pur PUI purchased chased the charming property of Bag I stalls atelle In the So House de I Boulogne e which at hit hIli death to b Sir Richard Wallace who as la I well known bee be tt it to the city of 01 Paris Pari marquis haul had read lea I Yule rute au dOr Th The Girl with the ICy Eye or of old wl whisk alt had bad jut just ape ap peered and It b had made mad an Imme on OD him not onlY bee It showed that tb the w was a It liter err ary genius ell but bid eves e moss because tile the story etory bore a rt to an denture adventure ot of the marquis hm him himself self HII Salad Bed with an intense desire to In know the tb marquis asked hit his frt friend l Jules Jule to arrange a at the Ille Ct Cate AnKI the r rOlt to stilt Olt of 01 one with a name nam In let It tor and on the stage 18 J Jules ul LacroIx hastened to hI his friend Balac but w was coldly received all ally the author hd had to 10 conf confer h hi sit situation t he could not venture out IX ex except at night It must be remembered that 10 years year ago 0 the law against debtor debt I orl or was Wall terribly severe vre and nd by appearing In broad daylight in n u Ii tre fre frequented likE tb the sae was running ImmInent danger daner ot of at ar Teat reet lie did not Il stir r from h hie little fortress refused refuNd to 10 see hi his intimate I friend and nd even evell had ad difficulty In gaining alC access to him so 10 wen well did Mme de d hIli hl devoted house housekeeper keeper keep guard over h r maser With II a crestfallen air Ir Jule Lacroix Lacrois reported to the marquis the failure or of hll hi emb embassy and the plight In which was Th The Marquis of 01 Hertford however w was not a man manto tv to tick slick at trines when he had set art hll mind on attaining hI his ob object ct and nd h ha bluntlY demanded the amount of the debtors debtor liabilities named the sum wn well said Id Ih the marquis tell M Md I d de that If he will meet DIE me at atCate t Cat Cate tb this day weak I will pay hie deb debts Imagine Ima the r rage when on the appoInted da day Ju Jules Lacroix appeared d alone Ione H Ho h had made des dea pent efforts to 10 find and c and had even tent hint him a letter Imploring him to come to the It was ai all allin In vain The Th debtor bad taken fright and was III invisible and It was not lIot till UtI some time afterwards that he be leaned of the golden he had blid Ie lot and that an hour mc c diced to 10 the magnificent curiosity of all English b would hH have ve Ir treed hm him from Irum care for tor Years vOlar to come cm LEON RAYMOND |
