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Orleans, Ma. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): article 13
Death of a dwarf in Paris. --The death of a celebrity, a dwarf, in Paris, the French counterpart of the American Tom Thumb, is recorded. In his sixteenth year he was placed in the establishment of the Duchess of Orleans, the mother of the citizen king, and was so small at that age that he passed for an infant; and so dressed, during the stormy period of the first revolution, secret dispatches were sent by him, which thus reached, without suspicion, the imprisoned members of the royal family of France. To the day of his death, this dwarf, named Richebourg, received a pension from the Orleans family of 3,000 francs a year, equivalent to £120 of our money. During the last thirty years he has lived in the same house, in the Faubourg St. Germane. Unlike Tom Thumb, he had a horror of appearing in public, and for nearly half a lifetime has never crossed the threshold of his own door. Not the least remarkable feature in the career of this creature, is the fact that he lived to the
France (France) (search for this): article 13
f a dwarf in Paris. --The death of a celebrity, a dwarf, in Paris, the French counterpart of the American Tom Thumb, is recorded. In his sixteenth year he was placed in the establishment of the Duchess of Orleans, the mother of the citizen king, and was so small at that age that he passed for an infant; and so dressed, during the stormy period of the first revolution, secret dispatches were sent by him, which thus reached, without suspicion, the imprisoned members of the royal family of France. To the day of his death, this dwarf, named Richebourg, received a pension from the Orleans family of 3,000 francs a year, equivalent to £120 of our money. During the last thirty years he has lived in the same house, in the Faubourg St. Germane. Unlike Tom Thumb, he had a horror of appearing in public, and for nearly half a lifetime has never crossed the threshold of his own door. Not the least remarkable feature in the career of this creature, is the fact that he lived to the age of nin
Paris (search for this): article 13
Death of a dwarf in Paris. --The death of a celebrity, a dwarf, in Paris, the French counterpart of the American Tom Thumb, is recorded. In his sixteenth year he was placed in the establishment of the Duchess of Orleans, the mother of the citizen king, and was so small at that age that he passed for an infant; and so dressed, during the stormy period of the first revolution, secret dispatches were sent by him, which thus reached, without suspicion, the imprisoned members of the royal family of France. To the day of his death, this dwarf, named Richebourg, received a pension from the Orleans family of 3,000 francs a year, equivalent to £120 of our money. During the last thirty years he has lived in the same house, in the Faubourg St. Germane. Unlike Tom Thumb, he had a horror of appearing in public, and for nearly half a lifetime has never crossed the threshold of his own door. Not the least remarkable feature in the career of this creature, is the fact that he lived to the