GENIUS AND INSANITY.
A few months ago there dltd iv a mansion in the Avenue Henri Martin, Paris, an
extraordinary individual known as Strada,
but whoee real niitiis wias J ides de h<, Kue, • He waa very wealthy, and possessed numer
«ua pi*turee painted by himself. For forty years he had nt-ver stepped across the threshold of Ms house, aiwi spent his time in. paiiitiiig and composing poetry. He is be•ieved to have signed a, thousand immense <aavase» chaxacterised by strange and barwtroua symboasni, and he published more than fifty collections of his verses. He left his mansion aod works to the city of Paris, but (writes a Paris correspondent) the Fourth Commission of the Municipal Council, to Whom the bequest had been referred, has JMIi advieed, through M. Quentiu Bauehart, *«* the gift be trot accepted.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11492, 27 January 1903, Page 5
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136GENIUS AND INSANITY. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11492, 27 January 1903, Page 5
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