A DEJEUNER A LA FOURCHETTE, AT MR. MARMIER'S, 

 W PARIS. 



A radiant light in the literary horizon of France is 

 quenched : the Academician Marmier, the friend of 

 Chateaubriand, of Thiers, of Eameau de Saint-Pere, is 

 no more. 



A cablegram apprised his many admirers and warm 

 friends, in Quebec, of his demise, at Paris, on the 7th 

 October, 1892, at the advanced age of 83 years. 

 Xavier Marmier, the renowned traveller and brilliant 

 litterateur, was born at Pontarlier, Department of 

 Doubs, on the 24th June, 1809. His education care- 

 fully watched over, was acquired in a provincial town ; 

 his first effusions graced the columns of a journal pub- 

 lished at Besancon. 



A lover of literature and an ardent and successful 

 student of men and manners in distant lands, Xavier 

 Marmier, at an early age set out to realize the dream 

 of his youth, foreign travel ; visiting Switzerland and 

 Holland, before settling in Paris, where issued, in 1830, 

 his Esquisses PoMques. His ultimate knowledge of 

 the German, Eussian, and Scandinavian languages 

 readily procured him the editorship of an important 

 periodical, La Revue Germanique. In 1832, we find 

 him in Germany. 



In 1836-38, he was sent at the Government's 

 expense, to make archaeological researches through the 

 northern parts of Europe ; so successful was he, that in 

 later years, this pleasant mission brought him the 

 cordon of the Legion of Honour ; he became famous as 

 a learned, genial and polished writer. M. Marmier 

 next directed his wandering footsteps to Eussia, the 



