Show crowds travel to beau br brummels Brum um inels grave simple tombstone marks mark s resting place in france caen france george bryan beau brummell was burled here bere in and a simple tombstone marks ills hla final resting place after a gay and spectacular life so far this year more than british and amerle american an tourists have visited his grave in this protestant cemetery brummell was born in london on june 7 1778 years ago last june ills his father was lord norths private secretary ile he attended attend pd eton and oxford where he was distinguished for ills hla studiousness as well as his merlc ulous ness in attire after four years in the army he came into an immense fortune and ancl thereafter devoted himself to the profession of fashion arbiter in 1813 lie he quarreled with avith the prince regent and he had to flee for hla his life to calais here for fourteen years he struggled along in his reckless carefree way and from 1830 to 1832 held a consulate at caen he gradually lost ills mind min d and he died an idiot in an asylum in 1840 at sixty two while in prison in caen for debts brummell wrote many begging I 1 letters etters to friends who had been willing enough to spend ills his money in other days they turned a deaf mr ear e however he read a great deal of washington irving in and lord byron received the visit 0 of f tom moore and prayed that he might not die like william the conqueror in normandy even god his friends said turned a deaf ear to this entreaty as if in punishment for his riotous living lie he wanted to be burled buried on british soll eoll but those who had abandoned him in life also forsook him in death and his once proud bones long since have moldered to dust in the caen cemetery |