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Show VERY CURIOUS FRYING PAN Interesting Relic In tho Cluny Museum Muse-um In Parl Iti Remarkable History. At the Cluny muNuum In Paris Is a very Interesting relic, of which thla la the history. 11 appears that one day. it year or so ago, the curator of the musoum happened to vUlt ft kid a 1 1 restaurant In the auburb of Saint iH'tils, In which the aumo room served fur dining-room mid kitchen. While waiting to be served, the curator' cu-rator' eye wnt caught by a frying-pan frying-pan of most uiiuhuuI appearance that hung upon the wall. He took It down, carefully removed aotne of the soot with which It was covered, and made out part of on Inscription. What be found Interested him so much that he bought the old pan. When It was properly cleaned, It waa found to benr tho anna of France and Navarro, surrounded by the chain of Ht, Lout and the cord of the Order or Saint lisprtt. and this Inscription as well: "Here Ilea the magnificent I'rlnco, King Louis XIV., king of France and Navarre, llequlcscat In pace." It was the plate that bad been fastened fast-ened to the coltln of Louis XIV. When the burial vaults of the royal family In the populace of 1793, It had been wrenched from the coffin, fitted with a handle, and turned Into a frying pan. Tho relic may now be seen In the Cluny museum. The handle has been removed, but three holes show where It was attached. |
