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Updated: May 3, 2025
It was shown that Jean-Francois Tascheron had obtained a passport for North America some months before the crime was committed. Thus the plan of leaving France was fully formed; the object of his passion must therefore be a married woman; for he would have no reason to flee the country with a young girl.
Francois Tascheron continued, therefore, to excite the curiosity of not only all the town but all the department, and a few romantic women openly testified their admiration for him. "If there is really in all this a love for some woman high above him," they said, "then he is surely no ordinary man, and you will see that he will die well."
This hospital, intended for the indigent old persons of the canton, for the sick, for lying-in women if paupers, and for foundlings, was to be called the Tascheron Hospital. Veronique ordered it to be placed in charge of the Gray Sisters, and fixed the salaries of the surgeon and the physician at four thousand francs for each.
"She is now a saint!" was said by the peasants as they went away along the roads of the canton to which she had given prosperity, saying the words to her creations as though they were animate beings. No one thought it strange that Madame Graslin was buried beside the body of Jean-Francois Tascheron.
The poor rector was carried away unconscious from the foot of the scaffold, though he did not even see the fatal knife. During the following night, on the high-road fifteen miles from Limoges, Denise, though nearly exhausted by fatigue and grief, begged her father to let her go again to Limoges and take with her Louis-Marie Tascheron, one of her brothers.
Thus her friends, and she herself, were the first to know the results of the preliminary inquiry, which would soon be made public. The following is a brief epitome of the facts on which the indictment found against the prisoner was based. Jean-Francois Tascheron was the son of a small farmer burdened with a family, who lived in the village of Montegnac.
"Your ideas are noble, madame," said Monsieur de Grandville, "but, premeditation apart, Tascheron would still be liable to the penalty of death on account of the other serious and proved circumstances attending the crime, such as forcible entrance and burglary at night." "Then you think that he will certainly be found guilty?" she said, lowering her eyelids.
A murder, of which the young Tascheron is accused, and, as the issue proves, quite justly, interrupts this culpable idyll; and the assassin is condemned and executed, without revealing the secret of his liaison, and without Madame Grasselin's interfering to save him, otherwise than vaguely, through the Cure of the district.
The lover and the miser, Tascheron and Pingret, each under the influence of his master passion, must have met by the buried hoards, both drawn thither by the gleaming of gold on the utter darkness of that fatal night.
The shawl, more especially, confirmed the belief that Tascheron had committed this crime in the interests of some love affair. "He protects that woman after his death," said one lady, hearing of these last discoveries, rendered harmless by the criminal's precautions.
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