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Show Waited Long for Honor. Forty years to elapse before honoring honor-ing a hero is, to say the least, a reasonable rea-sonable time. Few of his comrades will be left to say that the distinction is invidious. Yet this is what has happened to the man who saved the Louvre when Paris was In the hands of the commune In 1871. Maj. Martian Mar-tian de Bernardy de Segoyer was the hero of May 24, 1871, and the victim of the mob a day or so later. He was In command of the Twenty-sixth battalion de chasseurs-a-pied and was dispatched to occupy the Tulleries garden. He saw the Louvre was threatened, in fact, the flames had reached the gallery of antiquities. He had no orders, but he took upon hlm-Belf hlm-Belf to send his men and In a short time the flames were under control. London Globe. |