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between Franklin and the Gout" Franklin is accused of taking too 

 little exercise. Gout says : " Behold your fair friend at Auteuil. . . . 

 When she honors you with a visit, it is on foot. In this see at once 

 the preservation of her health and personal charms. But when you 

 go to Auteuil, you must have your carriage, though it is no farther 

 from Passy to Auteuil than from Auteuil to Passy." 



Eumford's house appears to be much as it was one hundred years 

 ago, although shorn of its two acres of gardens and now with shabby 

 exterior. The front is enclosed by a high iron fence, with heavy gates 

 and there still remains a suggestion of shrubbery and flowers. In 1870 

 this house was the scene of a tragedy in which Prince Pierre Bona- 

 parte shot and killed Victor Noir, a young journalist, who had pre- 

 sented a challenge. 



Half a mile southward in the Rue Michel Ange is the cemetery of 

 Auteuil. It is surrounded by a high wall and contains probably more 

 than half an acre of ground. The graves are much crowded and the 

 paths narrow. ~No interments are now made there. The tomb of 

 Count Bumford is near the south wall. The horizontal stone is 

 perhaps six feet square; the vertical stone of about the same dimen- 

 sions, and three feet thick. The material appears to be a soft marble, 

 now so badly weathered that the inscriptions are illegible. 



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