AFTER THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 247, 12 October 1908, Page 4

AFTER THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS

HOW A Jj'ATHIiK UW>T JUS LOXULOST DAUUM'i'EIt. Paris, August !!U. No writer of romance ha s ever conceived a ..jlory more extraordinary than that which ends with the iiuding of !iis daughter by -M. Amilcare (Jiplaui after thiriy-eight year.-;. .Most people know the Italian revolutionary ,\i. Amileare Cipriani by name. In ISli'.l he wa.s a refugee in London earning his living as a photographer. Hi! there made the acquaintaance of Miss Adolfma Rue, with whom he fell desperately in love and whom he married. The couple were living happily at Ox-ford-market, in Marylebone when, 011 September 4, 1870, the revolution broke out in France, and the Empire came to an end. Already a little daughter had been born to them, who was then seven months old, and bore the original name of I'uivia Lavinio Itala llonia Cipriani, but, uo considerations of family could restrain Cipriani's revolutionary ardor. Ue hastened to Paris, fought through the Commune, and was rewarded with life-long penal servitude in New Caledonia. From that day his wife and daughter were lost to him.

Ten years afterwards he was pardoned, hut when he reached England all trace of his loved ones had vanished. All that he could learn was that his wife was (lead.

For twenty-eight years the old revolutionary, who had settled in Paris, hoped against hope that one day his daughter would he restored to him. Manv a time he appeared to be 011 the right track, only to he more bitterly disappointed.

A few weeks ago, however, lie received 11 letter irom the well-known Parisian humorist, ~\L. Jaques Wely, in -which the writer said he had reason to believe that his wife was Cipriani's daughter. Inquiry followed, and it was definitely proved that such is the case. For years father and daughter have been living in the same city, eack longing to find the other, and yet never dreaming of their proximity.