CLEOPATRA IN PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 3

CLEOPATRA IN PARIS.

. ; Mark ■ Antony's "Sorpent. of Old ''Nile". -li£3 bnricd in - Paris, a-"! stone's v' : throw iromthe'Stc«tExchaiig6' (says -tire-Paris, •■correspondent-:of- the - "Telegraph"). ■ -An Vanoiiymous? writer., makes ; : this, strange - reand vouches ■ for\the truth of it student jrho. has. read ■ in; the , IBibliotheque-Nationide knows the; inelan'Choly little.;old -'.bit-' of 'garden, shut- in on fthree sides by' the' buildings the library., -and :on' the : fourth by-the-railiiigs. along rthe -Eue:.yivieiuie; ;wiiich lis accessible 'to Jifmo - save -the -.Keeper-, of. -:, the - Printed Books, and in', which : hei -has most' FriK iahly-nover set --footv"'There.'it seems, a.ro bnned the .remains of:,Cleopatra;.,;and thev >havo lain there .theso -forty -years. Under.; a glass .(aso,- 'in ,: iSie - cabinet of medals of th 6: Bibliothequo Nationale is Aa '.Egyptian' . and.' Egyptolo- ; are-positive'' that - tho'.'inscriptions raptm,it:prove.. , it .to haye. contained the jbody,.'of'-Cleopatra. - .-The'sarcophagus was ibrooght. from :Egypt to '.Earis 'over forty r.rs ago by a I'Vench savant, who placed iD .the 'National Library. - After some anonths it :> was , fomnd -.impossible: to'-pre-!servo -\the muminy which- it ' contained, : iand theiqutstioh arose as to jvhat should-'.be-done with .the'remains of. the .Queen ■k>f:Egypt.' i:ltfwas:;at;last.!'decidcd .to biiry thtfs'qiuetly,' without > ;'pbmpv.or.' publicity,rin the old. bit .'of ' sarQen .enclosed by. the (building;-.' where she ;■ was:: accordingly laid ffiocretly/ in the earth- forty, years. ago.. :

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