A FRENCHMAN WHO HATED HIS COUNTRY
The Btory of strange request comeß from Paria. M. Bareiller, ex-Mayor of Bolßßiaole-ttof, a country town Bituated. m Seine- et-f*tarne, was sentenced to':a year's imprisonment In 18S6. for having fired at arid wounjod a workman who pressed him for payment of a debt of 10a. M Bareiller was driven mad with anger by his sentence, and during his detention this een3e of bitterness grow deeper His constitution became shattered, and the disappointment of not receiving a pnrdon on July 14 wrought an alarming change mMb condition. From that day he oould eat no food, aixl on tho 20 .h nit. he died at the Melan hrepital. Thia ill-fated man was a land;wn r of good nvana, being worth about £24,(00. Utter y he con ceived an abhorrenoe of hia couutry on accunt of Mb onntrymen, and he declared that he would spare no oppor> tnnlty of revenging himself for all the infamy cast upon him by the French judges. He drew up two wills at different periods by which ho left his property of Boiaialse to Germany, represented by the Crown Prince with the obj Qt of establishing there a settlement of yung Germans.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1676, 30 September 1887, Page 3
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200A FRENCHMAN WHO HATED HIS COUNTRY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1676, 30 September 1887, Page 3
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