| Show G A HEART HEArtT Impressive and lII Dramatic CIC Cere Ceremonies monies lit t the I Specia Correspondence Corre April I INO I No more moore dramatic 1 I ceremony han taken place In In III recent years arll than luau that pictured In the accompanying ree recep reception p tion tc n of ot the heart of ot La Lit Tour dAu ilu dAuvergne vergne vergile Tho The First Iut of ot Franco France which occurred nl III the tIme In III I mu the time other tiny day This rhin relic tello of ot the thc heroic herc lc soldier famed In French Kronen song and story star has hits had hod a 1 Ids lory tot tor hardly lens bus k s strange and romantic I than that of or the Ihl man who left Idt behind h i him h tnt HO ro o Inspiring I as pin a g an 1111 a it exit of oC pa patriotic devotion to 10 his hiM country The rho rh heart limes hits figured on many a II battlefield n a Its a ft 1 stimulus at to 10 the time of oC tho sol sal hess of oC France Often It II hits has been lost and miraculously recovered It has hall beet been the tho Ih subject of et Ignoble contests In III thu law la courts And now no at lit last Unit It flints finds a II fit abiding place union u the honored memorials of oe the Iho marshal of oC France La Ia Tour TUtu was horn born at itt In III An All ti In Iii 1713 and died an iS he wished to tn die lie lighting gallantly for his hili country lit at ln III In 1100 But HUI tIme the heart le Ie heroIC hems as nil It is proudly called Instead of being hurled burled with the tite I body bod was sealed up tip In III a n leaden case which the Iha quartermaster of oC the famous Camou regiment tIlt till l wherever her ever oer time tho command went vent always close clOHe to time the Hag flag Napoleon Napeleon subsequently or ordered dered It brought to the chancellery c I Hut under th Bourbon regime It II was Wan no longer regarded as ns a I prized to and for tor several years was lost track of ot like head hond After that when timen It haul had been found and Identified till ell family litigation for Its possession O 1 con ron for tOr a II long lonK period In 1810 1110 M I du ito do secured the time urn mn find and preserved It In his hl castle of La Ln LaHaye Labye bye Haye near the heros birth birthplace place Thus ThUll It II came lime Into the possession of ot M du do grandson Colonel duo due Penta vi co de who offered It II to 10 France The body bol was removed from fro its original burial place In 1559 und Interred In ho tho Standing In th the doorway of or the fain Otis ous home In front of or Napo Napoleon apo leon Iron tomb President t received I the tho solemn procession which escorted tit tire tour four grenadiers from front La IlL Tours regiment who wh bore le Ie coeur di heron heros It has hall been placed In tho de den the burial place of oC all the governors of the th Invalided whence In a IL 1 few tew days It will he be removed to tho the chapel 1 which is s to be bo Its perma permanent I neat nent resting place Although most moat of Jho the surviving vet veterans erans of or La Tout regiment r are spend spending ing In their last days dabs In tho time whenever the tho command assembles tIme the roll roil coil call who knows knowlI tho the grenadier only through history culls calM his hll name Instantly another soldier replies Dead on the Held field of nine fame |
