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 announcing the sad event and the closing of the theatre for the night. The Saturday following, the coffin arrived in Paris, and was placed in the apartment of the Rue Royale. On the 11th the funeral took place, and was attended by a crowd of all that was eminent in art or letters of the Paris of the day. The poor heart, lying still and cold, was saved one pang added to the many it had undergone. Her eldest son was absent, kept at school at Geneva, and knew nothing of his mother's death. When Count Walewski was asked if the boy were to attend the funeral, he said he did not think it necessary, and that it would cause the child a sad and disagreeable impression; so the young Alexander Antoine-ColonnaAlexandre Antoine Jean Colonna [sic], Viscount Walewski (for he was openly acknowledged), son of the first Minister of the Empire and the actress Rachel, was not chief mourner at his mother's funeral.

What need to recapitulate the panegyrics that were spoken over her grave? Jules Janin, Théophile Gautier, Paul de Saint Victor, all praised her in speeches it did not need any effort of oratory to render eloquent; for they were instinct with the warmth of artistic appreciation, and pathetic by reason of their deep and sincere regret. The words sobbed out by DejazetDéjazet [sic], as she cast violets on her comrade's grave, "Pauvre femme! ah la pauvre femme!" are enough for us. They contain neither the condemnation of her enemies nor the praise of her friends, but they are pregnant with all the comprehensive pity of one who understood the difficulties and temptations of her sister artist's life.