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cious remains. They themselves transported the body of Be- 

 clard to the church of Saint Sulpice, which in an instant was 

 filled with SavanSj professors, and students. It was with the 

 same eagerness, that the students, desirous of paying a last 

 mark of respect, admiration, and gratitude to their teacher, 

 carried his remains to the burial ground of Pere-La-Chaise. 

 Those who could not have the honour of bearing this precious 

 relicks, followed it in a mournful silence. In this manner it 

 may be said, that he had a more imposing attendance than the 

 ordinary and paid for pompous display, which surrounds the 

 funeral car of the rich and powerful. 



The Royal Academy and the School of Medicine, appointed 

 a man of known eloquence to celebrate the last honours due to 

 the manes of Beclard. The pupils, on their side, desirous of 

 giving to their master an everlasting pledge of their sorrow, 

 opened immediately a subscription to erect a funeral monu- 

 ment to his memory. The School of Medicine of Paris, and 

 the friends of Beclard, imitated the generous impulse of his 

 younger admirers, and we soon beheld rising over his grave, 

 a monument which will long recall to our minds the talents of 

 Beclard, the universal regret of which he was the object, and 

 the noble admiration of studious youths for the teacher to 

 whose lessons they had listened with so much eagerness; and, 

 who, victim as he was of his ardour for acquirements and zeal 

 for public instruction, died when only 39 years old, and when 

 he was about to reach the zenith of his glory.* 

 Paris, December 15th, 1826. 



* While the School of Medicine of Paris was deploring'the loss of Beclard, 

 the city of Angers, not less afflicted with so fatal an event, wished also to 

 honour the memory of a man who had done so much for the glory of his 

 country, appointed M. David his countryman and friend, and equally cele- 

 brated in his art, to execute in marble the bust of the rival of Bichat 



