By accident I picked up the Suburban instead of the Metropolitan edition, and there I found a Victor E.
Chabert living at Allenhurst, N.J.I immediately got into communication with him and found that he was a grandson of the Fire King, but he could give me no more information than I already possessed, which I now spread before my readers.
M.Chabert was a son of Joseph and Therese Julienne Chabert.

He was born on May 10th, 1792, at Avignon, France.
Chabert was a soldier in the Napoleonic wars, was exiled to Siberia and escaped to England.

His grandson has a bronze Napoleon medal which was presented to Chabert, presumably for valor on the field of battle.
Napoleon was exiled in 1815 and again three years later.

Chabert first attracted public notice in Paris, at which time his demonstrations of heat-resistance were sufficiently astonishing to merit the attention of no less a body than the National Institute.
To the more familiar feats of his predecessors he added startling novelties in the art of heat-resistance, the most spectacular being that of entering a large iron cabinet, which resembled a common baker's oven, heated to the usual temperature of such ovens.

He carried in his hand a leg of mutton and remained until the meat was thoroughly cooked.
Another thriller involved standing in a flaming tar-barrel until it was entirely consumed around him.
In 1828, Chabert gave a series of performances at the Argyle Rooms in London, and created a veritable sensation.