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Show Widows Exercise Old Right. Eight widows In the town of Auxerre, France, are to culelirute the five hundredth anniversary of an net of King ( liarles VII, decreeing that eight widows In that particular village vil-lage shall always have rent free. A member of (.'liarles' . suite, who was wounded at I lie battle of Cravant. wm nursed and cured by eight widows, and he provided for his nurses In his mansion in Auxerre. Later, Charles added the provision that the house should forever be the rerugo of elsat widows. |