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Show Gounod's Old Guitar. St. Cloud is about to do honor to" tho memory of Gounod. Tho Illustrious Illustri-ous compober at ono time lived thero, nnd for years Inhabited n protty villa nj. Montretout, wheto ho composed tho gieater number of his masterpieces. master-pieces. During tho Franco-Prussian war tho German soldiers sacked thu property and burned down tho hnuso. Everything Every-thing was destrojed with tho exception excep-tion of a gultnr, which to day Is to bo seen in tho Opera museum. This gultnr gul-tnr Is precious to admirers of "Faust" and "Mlrelilo" for morn than one roa-son, roa-son, for It Is said that Its chords resounded re-sounded to the composer's first musical musi-cal conceptions. It bears in tho center, cen-ter, written by tho master's hand, tho words: VNoml npille, 1SG2." It la now proposed to erect n monument monu-ment to GounodM which will be Bur-mounted Bur-mounted by a bronzo reproduction of J. It. Cuipeaux's biiBt of tho great musician. |