Show VICTORIEN I IS DEAD IN PARIS I Noted French Author and Playwright Playwright Play PlaY-j wright Mourned by I Nation Natan i I IRise IS IN LEGIN LEGION OF HONOR Rise From Poverty to Position of Wealth and andS andI S I Influence Paris Nov S. S S the time leading dramatist of France rance and andone andone andone one of the tho grent great dramatic authors of ot till all ni time died today from an affection of the time heart heart after aCer a n long Ions Illness Ines He le was 79 years ears old He lie lo was a member of oC the French academy and his pen was used to develop elop the drama In France and throughout the world He had boen been In feeble health for tor many months and while his d death ath was not unexpected he ho will wi bo ho universally I mourned throughout hout the French re re- re public His funeral will wi probably be attended by the leading men of letters letters let let- tens and the time stage sUJe In Paris as well wel as ns those prominent In official life Victorien was o a man possessed possessed pos pos- of singular ular charm and was g greatly beloved an and there thero Is universal regret that he left no memoirs He Hc was born In Paris September 7 7 1831 the tho son fon of Leandre an educationalist educationalist and compiler At first he studied medicine but was obliged In Inconsequence Inconsequence consequence of tho the embarrassments of his family to give private lessons in literature writing articles for Cor several rc reviews and for or the minor journals S Ills His Latest Latet Drama At the age ago of 75 76 witnessed the thc production of his Imis latest drama des dea Poisons at tho the Porte St St. Martin theater This play which has to do with wih the Infamous camarilla which existed under th the reign of Louis XIV and which was as presented for Cor the time first time December last Is 13 still running to crowded houses hous 8 In the year 1857 M. M 1 was In Ina Ina Ina a state of poverty po and extreme distress He lie was living In a garret ani and was prostrated by typhoid fever 1 but ut a neighbor Mile De Do nl nursed ed him with tender care during his illness from tram which ho he slowly re recovered re- re covered He married her in tho the following year ear and was by hy her Introduced to toMile toMIle tolle Mile lle dc de who had just established the th theater ater which was named after her M. M 11 earlier pieces after his first failure In 1854 were performed performed per per- formed at his theater Nine years after his marriage e M. M lI was In possession of a hand handsome fortune and anda a European renown when a gloom was temporarily cast over his imis career caree by the death dt-ath of ot his wife Monsieur Garat was one of or the time ost prolonged successes of tho the little theater and Les Pres Gerais transformed Into an opera was afterward afterward after after- aCer aCer- w ward rd 1 brought out In Paris an and also In Inan Inan an aim En English version at the tIme Criterion theater In London Almost cr c every land knows the time stage heroes and heroines born out of ot San Sal dous dou's resourceful mind Mile Sarah Saral Sarh t has ha won her greatest triumphs triumphs tri tri- In roles lie he wrote for Cor her such as La Tosca Fedora Fedor and Gismonda Mme Ime Sans enc ene was written for Cor Mme Rejane In iii which she portrayed ed the outspoken hearted good wife 01 ot of Marshal La Fc It I was Into nto En English lisl an and Sir Henry ry Hel Irving Ir and Miss Terry ferry were seen en In Jt It In London at the time Lyceum M. M 1 married Juno June 17 17 1872 1 Mile le Soulier dau daughter of the tlC con or- or atur of or the time Museum of ot Versailles He was decorated with the tIme Legion of or Won Ton or in 1863 and was elected a member of or the French a academy in 1877 |