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Georges du Mesnil de la Tour lived in the 17th Century, in a quiet town deep in the Duchy of Lorraine. There he married an heiress, and probably using his family as models, painted his life away. He sold a few canvases to the Dukes of Lorraine. Once, when Louis XIII marched into the Duchy in the midst of a plague, La Tour presented him with his Saint Sebastian in the Night. The king removed all other paintings from his room (perhaps, one historian suggests, because he hoped Saint Sebastian would protect him from the plague...
...Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
...Channel near Cherbourg, with several French bluejackets standing on her deck. Suddenly the Promethée began to go down by the stern.. Since her hatches were open, water poured in and she sank like a stone, carrying 62 men to their death. Her commander, a Lieut, du Mesnil, stepped out of the conning tower to see what the trouble was, just in time to save his skin...
Precisely why did the Promethée sink? Before this could possibly be known rumors grew that some clumsy seaman had opened the diving valves by accident. Another rumor had Lieut, du Mesnil commit suicide after he was picked up with six lucky survivors by a fishing smack. Actually the Lieutenant announced himself at the disposal of the usual naval board of inquiry. "Before realizing what had happened," he told reporters, "I was swimming for my life...