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Arcis-sur-Aube, May 3, 1839.
Dear friend, -- Last evening, before Maitre Achille Pigoult, notary of this place, the burial of Charles Dorlange took place, -- that individual issuing to the world, like a butterfly from a grub, under the name and estate of Charles de Sallenauve, son of Francois-Henri-Pantaleon Dumirail, Marquis de Sallenauve. Here follows the tale of certain facts which preceded this brilliant transformation.