MENIER THE CHOCOLATE MAKER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1959, 16 January 1914, Page 9

MENIER THE CHOCOLATE MAKER.

"MAX WHO, WOULD BE KING."

M. Henri Menior, tlio famous clioco late manufacturer, whoso death occurred rpcentlv, was better known in England ns tho man who would bo kin!*." In 1805 ho boußht the island of Inticosti, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for £25.000, and set up what was practically a 'government of his own there. Under tho namo, of "rules" ho mado laws to which nil who lived on the island had to conform, and ho evicted eighteen families of old settlers on tho island who refused to recognise his authority; Tho ownership by . a Frenchman of ■an ■ important British island liko . Anticosti—it is 130 miles long, with an average width of '27 miles —caused somo uneasiness in. England at tho time, which (says-tlib London "Daily Express") M. Menicr's assumption of sovereignty did not tend, to nllay. When Qticon Victoria died his "governor," If. Gommcttaiit, sent n ■ tftlDgram of eondolcnco to Lord Miiito, , then Governor-General of Canada, which Lord Jlinto rcfttSßcl to accept, as it involved an assumption of sovereignty. I.ntor, however, matters wero smoothed over, and M. Menior explained that hn had no intention of damiing nny rights except those of an ordinary landowner, lie spent about £300,000 in developing the island, but it did not repay his expectation.?, and ho had done little with it in recpnt years. In Franco his model city of Noisiel was planned on similar lines to l'ort Sunlight and Rotirncvillo , in England.