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LISGAR, JOHN Y. 



at the same theatre " Le Chiffonnier de Paris," 

 a drama of strong socialist tendencies, and 

 written by Felix Pyat, when the news reached 

 the side-scene of the unexpected slaughter that 

 was going on between the troops and the mob 

 on the boulevards. The crowded audience, 

 confident of the harmonious settlement of the 

 reform movement which had culminated by 

 the retreat of Guizot, were far from suspect- 

 ing anything of the kind, when, between the 

 second and third acts, the curtain rose and 

 Lemaitre, half dressed, pale with emotion, 

 holding a gun in his hand, rushed on the front 

 of the stage and in a striking attitude ex- 

 claimed: " Citizens, what are you doing here? 

 Don't you know that your brothers are shed- 

 ding their blood for the sake of public liber- 

 ties ? . Why, you stupid people, do you remain 

 here to look at my faces and listen to my non- 

 sense? Come on with me; come at once out- 

 side and let us play a citizen-like part in the 

 great drama, the epilogue of which must be 

 the apotheosis of the people ! " And the great 

 actor, in his costume of rag-picker, ran to the 

 barricades, behind which he stood with the 

 populace till Louis Philippe fled from the 

 Tuileries. Many pieces were subsequently pro- 

 duced by the indefatigable artist, who im- 

 pressed upon each of the plays the seal of his 

 powerful originality. After several years of 

 absolute retirement from the stage consequent 

 upon the tragic death of his only son, Charles 

 Lemaitre, who, while delirious with fever, 

 threw himself out of the window of his apart- 

 ment, Lemaitre reappeared on the theatre of 

 his greatest triumphs, La Porte Saint-Martin, in 

 1868, at the age of seventy years. He repro- 

 duced several of his most popular plays, and 

 although his voice was so weak that he could 

 hardly be heard from the orchestra, yet the 

 magnificent expression of his mobile physiog- 

 nomy and the commanding authority of his 

 gestures were such as to render his acting 

 more attractive than that of any other artist. 

 The Emperor Napoleon III. had conferred upon 

 him the decoration of the Legion of Honor, 

 besides an annual pension out of the public 

 treasury. This proved to be his only resource 

 in the decline of his life, for, like his illustrious 

 predecessor, Kean (one of his best characters), 

 Frederick Lemaitre combined to an equal de- 

 gree the features of modern Bohemianism. He 

 was equally eminent as a public reader, having 

 read with great success numerous poems from 

 the " Chatiments " of Victor Hugo. 



LETELLIER-VALAZE, CHARLES ROMAIN, 

 a French general and senator, born April 18, 

 1812. He took part in the Crimean and the 

 Italian Wars, and was sent to Mexico. He 

 returned after the defeat of General Lorencez 

 at Puebla, and lost favor with the Emperor, be- 

 cause he had called the latter's attention to the 

 inevitable results of this undertaking. At the 

 beginning of the war of 1.870, he obtained a 

 brigade in General Frossard's corps, and in 

 October of the same year was created general 



of division. He was elected to the National 

 Assembly from Seine-Inferieure, in 1873, and 

 in 1875 was elected a life-senator by the Na- 

 tional Assembly, the forty-seventh, by 348 

 votes. 



LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK, a British artist, 

 born July 14, 1805; died August 18, 1876. 

 After having attracted considerable attention 

 by his studies of wild animals, which he en- 

 graved, he devoted himself to foreign travel, 

 and to portraying the modes of life of the semi- 

 civilized nations of the South and East. He 

 visited Spain, and made a series of drawings 

 of the Alhambra during a residence of some 

 months within its walls. He returned to Eng- 

 land in 1851, after thirteen years' absence in 

 Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt, and exhib- 

 ited several pictures of scenes and incidents in 

 those countries. During his stay on the Con- 

 tinent he employed much of his time in study- 

 ing the works of the great masters, and in 

 1853 his sixty-four copies, in water- colors, of 

 some of the most famous pictures of the Vene- 

 tian and Spanish schools were purchased by 

 the Scottish Academy. In 1855 he again de- 

 voted himself to oil-painting, and in that and 

 the following year exhibited his "Armenian 

 Lady, Cairo," and a "Frank Encampment, 

 Desert of Sinai," the latter in water- colors. 

 In 1855 he was elected President of the Water- 

 Color Society, but resigned his office in 1858. 

 In July, 1859, he was elected Associate of the 

 Royal Academy, and R. A. in 1865. 



LICK, JAMES, an American philanthropist, 

 died in San Francisco, Cal., October 1, 1876. 

 He was born at Fredericksburg, Lebanon Coun- 

 ty, Pa., August 25, 1796. He was engaged in 

 commercial pursuits in South America from 

 1821 to 1847, when he went to California, in- 

 vested largely in real estate, and employed his 

 means in other enterprises which resulted in 

 the accumulation of a large fortune. In 1874 

 he assigned $2,000,000 from his estate to trus- 

 tees for various public and philanthropic pur- 

 poses. In 1875 a revised deed was made. Be- 

 sides large sums to be given to various charities, 

 he directed that $150,000 be paid for the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of free public baths 

 in San Francisco; $700,000 for procuring for 

 the University of California "a telescope of 

 greater power than any yet made;" $100,000 

 for statuary for the new City Hall of San Fran- 

 cisco ; $60,000 for a monument to Francis Scott 

 Key, the author of "The Star-Spangled Ban- 

 ner;" and $540,000 to found and endow the 

 California School of Mechanic Arts in San 

 Francisco. The total value of the trust-fund 

 is estimated at about $5,000,000. 



LISGAR, JOHN YOUNG, baron, a British 

 statesman, born April 31, 1807; died October 

 10, 1876. He was educated at Corpus Christ! 

 College, Oxford, of which he was a gentleman 

 commoner, and where he took his bachelor's 

 degree in 1829. He was called to the bar at 

 Lincoln's Inn in 1834, but never practised. In 

 1831 he was elected to the House of Commona 



