OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (ROCHEBOUET SARCEY.) 



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Trout and the Grayling, a novel (London, 1866) ; 

 Glenmahra, or the Western Highlands (1870); 

 Modern War, or the Campaign of the First Prus- 

 sian Army (1870) ; In the Shires (1887) ; The Sil- 

 ver Trout, and Other Stories (1887); and Curb 

 and Snaffle, a novel (1888). 



Rochebouet, Gen., French soldier and states- 

 man, born in Angers in 1813; died in February, 

 1899. He took part in the Crimean War and in 

 the Italian campaign. In the Franco-German 

 War he commanded the artillery in the Army of 

 the Rhine, with which he was made prisoner at 

 Metz. Marshal MacMahon chose Gen. Rochebouet 

 to form the Cabinet that succeeded the Broglie- 

 Fourtou Cabinet in November, 1877. He held the 

 portfolio of Minister of War, and when he con- 

 fronted the Deputies as President of the Council 

 they passed an order of the day declaring that 

 the Chamber refused to enter into relations with 

 him because it saw in the constitution of his 

 Cabinet the negation of parliamentary principles. 

 The Chamber was dissolved, but fresh elections 

 suited in the return of the 363 Opposition mem- 

 bers. The Rochebouet Cabinet therefore disap- 

 ired on Dec. 14, giving place to the Dufaure 

 ibinet, and thus was ended the political crisis 

 run on May 16, 1877. 



>mero, Matias, Mexican diplomatist, born 

 Oaxaca, Feb. 24, 1837; died in Washington, 

 ). C., Jan. 1, 1899. He was appointed secretary 

 >f the Mexican legation in Washington in 1859, 

 acted as charge d'affaires till 1863, then left 

 >r home and in a short time returned as minis- 

 He occupied this post till 1868, and nego- 

 ited the treaties consequent upon the fall of the 

 iperor Maximilian. In 1884 he was again ap- 

 jinted minister at Washington, and he occu- 

 )ied the post till his death. 

 Ronsbey, Arthur, English singer, born in 

 r orkshire in 1852; died at sea, Oct. 29, 1899. 

 [e ran away from home and joined a traveling 

 ompany at the age of seventeen, but soon after- 

 ward, with the consent of his parents, devoted 

 limself to the study of music. He was engaged 

 Gilbert and Sullivan for the first production 

 of The Sorcerer in March, 1878, was the original 

 Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, and continued as a 

 principal singer with the Gilbert and Sullivan 

 productions until 1884. In 1879 he played Dick 

 Deadeye in Pinafore, and subsequently' Captain 

 Corcoran. His next and probably most original 

 creation was Grosvenor in Patience. He played 

 this part many months in London, until sent by 

 Mr. D'Oyly Carte to America for a restful change. 

 His first appearance in New York in the autumn 

 of 1883 was as Derrick in Planquette's Rip Van 

 Winkle. His next part was Strephon in lolanthe. 

 After a short season in New York and Philadel- 

 phia he was recalled to London to resume his 

 presentation f Grosvenor. After singing that 

 part in various cities for a year, he obtained his 

 release. He then entered English grand opera at 

 Covent Garden, and made a profound sensation 

 by his singing of Wolfe the Blacksmith in The 

 Pied Piper of Hamelin. He played also Valen- 

 line and Count di Luna, and was engaged by 

 Mr. Gye for the grand Italian opera for four years. 

 The death of the Duke of Albany prevented the 

 (in vying out of this 'contract, and Mr. Ronsbey, 

 after singing in several concert tours, organized 

 lii* own English opera company in 1887. In this 

 \enture he was very fortunate, and he continued 

 financially and artistically successful to the time 

 of his death. He was the first to produce Caval- 

 Icria Rusticana, Gli Pagliacci, and 'Pellegrini's 

 Mercedes in English. He had just completed a 

 tour of South Africa, and was returning with 



his company to England when suddenly stricken 

 with fatal illness. 



Saint-Germain (Francois-Victor- Arthur Gilles 

 de Saint-Germain), French actor, born in Paris, 

 Jan. 12, 1823; died there, July 1(5, 1899. He was 

 schooled to follow his father's profession of archi- 

 tect, but his family suffered misfortune, and he 

 became a bookseller's assistant. He made the ac- 

 quaintance of Michel Masson, an actor, and a 

 strong friendship began, which resulted in his en- 

 tering the Conservatoire. There he was a pupil 

 of Provost and a comrade of Got and Delaunay. 

 He took the first prize for comedy, Aug. 5, 1852, 

 and went with Provost on a playing tour. His 

 debut was made at the Odeon, Paris, Sept. 17, 

 1853, as Pasquin in Jeu de 1' Amour et du Hasard. 

 He originated there Torny in Mauprat, Antoine 

 in Conquete de Ma Femme, Alexandre in Que 

 Dira le Monde? and Crispin in Dernier Crispin. 

 On July 1, 1854, he became a pensionnaire of the 

 Comedie Frangaise, and made his debut at the 

 Theatre Franchise, as Rene in Depit Amoureux. 

 His position became irksome to him in 1859, and 

 he resigned, although upon the point of becoming 

 a soeietaire. He went then to the vaudeville, 

 where he remained in the performance of impor- 

 tant roles for sixteen years. Thence he went to 

 the Gymnase, where he played nine years, and 

 appeared occasionally at the Ambigu and the 

 Palais Royal. He was always regarded as one 

 of the best character actors on the French stage. 



Saunders, Charlotte, English actress, born in 

 London in 1826; died in Kettering, Northampton- 

 shire, March 31, 1899. She made her debut in 

 May, 1833, at Wakefield, Yorkshire, in the r6le 

 of Duke of York in Richard III. After acting 

 children's parts for several years, she received 

 great credit for her performance of Tillie Slowboy 

 at the opening of the Theater Royal, Manchester, 

 in January, 1846. She forthwith became a favor- 

 ite soubrette of the Liverpool circuit, and went to 

 London in August, 1849, where she made a very 

 favorable impression as Mopsa in A Winter's Tale. 

 In October, 1849, she played with Alfred Wigan in 

 The First Night at the Princess's Theater, and 

 in December, 1851, was the original Chang in 

 Francis Talfourd's burlesque The Willow-Pattern 

 Plate at the Strand Theater. In 1852 she went 

 to Dublin, where she became the rage, and re- 

 mained a great favorite, reproducing all the 

 comedy successes of Mine Vestris and the 

 Planche" burlesques. In December, 1858, she re- 

 turned to the Strand Theater, where she played 

 the leading parts in all the successful burlesques 

 of Henry J. Byron and other popular dramatists. 

 She was of the original cast of Falconer's Nature 

 above Art at Drury Lane, September, 1863, and 

 in December, 1864, originated the part of Hercules 

 in Brough's Hercules and Omphale at St. James's 

 Theater. She was the original Bob Buckskin, 

 the jockey in Boucicault's Flying Scud, at the 

 Holborn Theater, Oct. 6, 1866, and played the 



?art during its long run there and its revival in 

 868. She played the original parts Billie Taylor 

 in Burnand's Billie Taylor, Lord Ronald in Claude 

 Duval, Tiddy Dragglethorpe in Lost in London, 

 Ganymede in Ixion, and many characters in 

 standard drama. In 1884 she retired. 



Sarcey, Francisque, French critic, born in 

 Dourdan, Oct. 8, 1828; died in Paris, May 18, 

 1899. He won the first honor at the Charlemagne 

 Lyceum, and was fifth in his class in the Ecole 

 Normale. For several years he filled a professor- 

 ship conscientiously, and then joined the staff 

 of Figaro, attracting attention by his first article. 

 He became a writer also for the Opinion Nation- 

 ale, in which he began his career as a dramatic 



