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The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Literary items. (search)
d by him in 1841, and of other important works on political economy and social science, died suddenly at Paris on the 16th instant of disease of the heart. His "Dictionnaire du Commerce," published originally in 1836, has been several times reprinted, as has also his "Dictionary of Political Economy." He was buried at Pere-la-Chaise. Jules Gerard, the famous lion-killer, has been drowned in attempting to cross the river Jong, in Africa. He was born of poor parents, at Pignan, Var, June 14, 1817, so that he was in his forty-eighth year. Gerarnd was fond of sport from his youth; at ten he chased cats and monkeys; at sixteen he carried a rifle and was a bit of a pugilist. He was a volunteer for the Algerian campaign in 1841, and commenced the life of adventures which has been terminated in so untimely a manner. He describes, in his well-known work "Le Tueur de Lions " (1857 and 1858), how it came to pass that a poor dwarf of a creature like him ventured to declare war against th