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livres of revenue in return for an outlay of three hundred livres. The 

 Marchioness of Balestrin died at a hundred years, famous for her wit 

 and her satirical verses. Francoise Pinel, a pauper, died at the Charite 

 in Lyons, at a hundred and four, in January, 1754 ; and Marie Nause- 

 rine, another pauper, at the Hospital of Dinan, at a hundred and five, 

 in March, 1756. The Baron de Lavaur died in 1764, at a hundred and 

 five. Madame Marie Jahan, widow of M. de Villeneuve, lieutenant- 

 general, died at a hundred and eight. Madame Lullin, having reached 

 a hundred years, received a bouquet with a complimentary verse from 

 Voltaire. The most advanced age seems to have been attained by a 

 patriarch of the Jura, named Jacob, who was presented to the National 

 Assembly on the 28th of October, 1789, at the age, as attested by his 

 baptismal record, of one hundred and twenty years. Two invalids, 

 one a hundred and six, the other a hundred and seven years old, dined 

 with the First Consul on the tenth anniversary of the capture of the 

 Bastile, July 14, 1799. Facts concerning centenarianism are still more 

 abundant in the nineteenth century, for more attention has been paid 

 to collecting and publishing them, especially since the athenticity of 

 such cases has been disputed. Dr. Francois de Beaupin, who died at 

 Chateaubriand in 1805, a hundred and seventeen years old, was mar- 

 ried a second time at eighty, and had sixteen children by each mar- 

 riage. Dr. Dufournet, who died at Paris in 1810, aged a hundred and 

 ten, married a girl of twenty-six at eighty, by whom he had two chil- 

 dren. On the occasion of the inauguration of the equestrian statue of 

 Louis XIV in 1822, Pierre Huet, who was called dean of the French 

 army, and was a hundred and seventeen years old, was placed in a 

 chair in front of the statue, and was decorated in the name of the 

 King by the Prefect of the Seine. M. d'Ornois, of the Academy of 

 Rouen, died at St. George's in 1834, at a hundred and five. Alexandre 

 Mongeot, formerly Professor of Mathematics in the Polytechnic School, 

 died at Passy in 1807, at a hundred and five, with all his faculties 

 sound. Madame Foulon, sister of the unfortunate manufacturer of 

 that name who was murdered by the populace in 1789, died in Paris 

 at a hundred and four. A robust old man, M. Desquersonnieres, for- 

 merly commissary of the armies, was still living in Paris in 1842 at 

 the authenticated age of a hundred and fourteen years ; we do not 

 know the date of his death. We were personally acquainted with M. 

 Verron, who died in 1860 at the well-authenticated age of a hundred 

 years. He had administered the commune of Montmartre for more 

 than fifty years, and was still its mayor at the time of his death. 

 Baron de Posant, former prefect, died in Paris in 1872, at a hundred 

 and two ; the Count Jean Frederic de Waldeck on the 29th of Novem- 

 ber, 1875, at a hundred years and some months. The latter was in his 

 youth a militarv and diplomatic figure of considerable importance ; he 

 published a book of travels in North and South America in 1838, and 

 was a painter of considerable distinction. M. Duroy, a retired officer, 



