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THE NEW CHATELAINE.
This sub-lieutenant of artillery was called Jean Reynaud.

He was the son of a country doctor who slept in the churchyard of Longueval.
In 1846, when the Abbe' Constantin took possession of his little living, the grandfather of Jean was residing in a pleasant cottage on the road to Souvigny, between the picturesque old castles of Longueval and Lavardens.
Marcel, the son of that Dr.Reynaud, was finishing his medical studies in Paris.

He possessed great industry, and an elevation of sentiment and mind extremely rare.

He passed his examinations with great distinction, and had decided to fix his abode in Paris and tempt fortune there, and everything seemed to promise him the most prosperous and brilliant career, when, in 1852, he received the news of his father's death--he had been struck down by a fit of apoplexy.