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The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], Butler and Porter. (search)
A Parisian character. The Boulevard des Italians lost, last week, by the hand of death, one of its oldest frequenters, Major Fraser, an old dandy, who, from 1827 to 1864, inhabited Paris, and who, when in town, was rarely to be seen elsewhere than at that small, but choice, section of the boulevard which extends from the Chaussee d' Antin to the Rue Lafitte. His history is curious, and few people know it. Major Fraser was the great grandson of the Simon Lord Lovel, executed for high treason in the reign of George H. Some of his
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n of friends. One day when his bed was broken he replaced it by a collin, in which he was wont to say that he slept better than in bed, because he was not liable to tumble but when disturbed by the nightmare, to which he was very subject. He once made a bet with Lord Henry Seymour that he would ride to Brussels and back in thirty six hours, and he did it. Another time, he rode for a wager to Campaign and back every day for six days morning. With all this, he was an accomplished scholar; he habitually capped Latin verses with Jules Janine, and was the friend of Alfred de Musset, Bequet and Romnie. He was a member of all the most popular gambling clubs, in Paris, but never played himself. Notwithstanding his eccentric, and, as many supposed, frivolous life, he had a practical taste for the industrial pursuits of the present age. He was a director of several railways, and died ultimately from a fever caught in Portugal, whither he had gone to organize a company.--London Globe.