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SOCIETY IK . ALGIERS, 99
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"When , the Due _d'Aumale "was governor of tlie province of Medea , StAmand enjoyed _liis friendshiand no dinner or bail at the
. p , prince ' s residence took place without his being * invited . When distinguished persons , generals , artists , or learned men arrived at
MedeaSt . Amand received them in his house . Very often the Due , d'Aumale sent guests with letters of recommendation to him . He
was beloved by the whole population among whom he lived for his kindness and his charitand those who only saw him oncethought
it a happiness to shake y , hands with him , so delightful and , fascinating were his manners . Among the several hundreds who were
well acquainted with him , and the several thousands who knew him , none ever reproached him for anything . We confess that we , like
the rest , regarded him as a model of _probity and good conduct in for every him relation that he of proposed life . The Due a marriage d'Aumal to e him had with so great the a daug friendshi hter of p
, a noble family . Y / hen his highness returned in 1847 , as Governor-General of Algeria , St . Amand often went to visit him , and to dine
with him . _Abotit four weeks after the revolution of February , 1848 , we learnt that St . Amand had just died . His successor to the
Treasury , Mr . Haupier , requested an examination to be made , and a new inventory to be iven him . When this was doneit was found
that six thousand five g hundred pounds had been robbed , from the Treasury . M . Pierrey , a magistrate of the superior Court of
Al ordinary giers , was events instantl which y de it spatched was said to make had inquiries taken place into robberies at the Medea extra of - .
" St Various . Amand rumors but we reached in Al Al iers giers who of had the known _dearth him and so wellwould not believe ; any stories to g his di , scredit . ,
In April , 1848 , the judicial proceedings being finished , I met M . one Pierrey of the , who friends said of to th me e _^ iate , " Treasurer Well , Doctor of Medea ? , you ' " were Yes ' , I answered believe ,
' , man I , " and " his " Do death not is regret a great him loss doctor to me " , rep for lied he was M . Pierrey a noble- ; hearted " that
. , , derer man was ; his a true forger name , a convict was Jeremy , a robber Varney , and ; most he was prob born ably a in mur the
nei guilty ghborhood of in forgery which of he at Lyons the was court ; confined he was at Montbresson a and notary cam 's e clerk ; to he Al , escaped and iers was under from proved the the prison g
title of the Marquis of St . Amand . , " All this turned out , to be quite he true succeeded ; but now in , here taking was the the name difficult and identit question y of to the answer true , Marquis how had ,
• who The was police well , known after , the and most belonged diligent to a search distingui , could shed famil arrive y ? at no
probable certain conclusions that Jeremy ; so Varney we were became left to acquainted conjecture with . It the seems Marquis most
of St . Amand , then murdered him , hid his body where it had never marvellous been found , abilit had taken had possession identified himself of all his so family entirel papers with , the and life with of y
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Society Ik . Algiers, 99
SOCIETY IK . _ALGIERS , 99
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/27/
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