European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Walkon the Paris by de Reavis staff writer a stroll through the latin Quarter and Saint Germain Des pres with a parisian Friend turned up several Little known Sites on the macabre Side of history that tourists Seldom see. Smack in the Middle of the latin Quarter at no. 1 Rue Des Carmes in room 203 of the police station is the City s crime museum open wednesdays and thursdays 2-4 . This Little known museum holds a collection of documents and engravings from almost All the famous French trials including that of Charlotte Corday the woman who stabbed Jean Paul Marat in his Bath. It also has the order of arrest for Voltaire pour propos insolent enters be Regent and the list of the names of 366 pickpockets burglars and fences Given the police by the famous highwayman Cartouche after he gave up Hope that his gang would free him. Standing on the Gallows he began to sing. There Are several miniature guillotines in the museum and the actual Heads of several of the guillotined and plaster copies can be viewed by the Strong hearted at the Musee Orfila 45 Rue Des saints Peres which belongs to the medical faculty of the University of Paris. Arrangements to see the collection must be made in Advance. Among the Heads that can be seen in various institutes is that of Raymon Cail Lemin called Raymond la science one of the leading members of the Bonnot gang that made criminal history on sept. 21, 1911, when they used a waiting automobile in robbing a Branch of the society Generale in the Rue Ordener the first motorized heist. Cail Lemin was beheaded on april 21, 1913, along with two gang members. His head is in a Glass Jar in the Laboratory of the ophthalmological Section of the hotel Dieu Hospital. The head of anarchist Jules Rava Chol who Shook Paris burghers in 1892 with a series of bombings can be seen upon appointment in the Laboratory of the Salpetrier at 47 Boulevard de i Hospital. After his beheading Rava Chol s head fell into the hands of the famous neurologist Jean Martin Charcot the discoverer of hysteria and teacher of Sigmund Freud. Charcot split Rava Chol s head in search of the physical source of the anarchist s criminal drive to no Avail. In 1975, students stole the head and placed it in its rightful place the National memorial crypt the pantheon the burial place of Voltaire Victor Hugo and other French luminaries. Police retrieved it after 24 hours. The Salpetrier the largest Hospital in Paris used to be As its name implies a Gunpowder Magazine. In 1656, a Royal decree turned it into an institution for female beggars prostitutes and emotionally disturbed women. Thirty years later a Section was used for a women s prison. For the Cost of keep it was also used by fathers and husbands to get rid of troublesome daughters and wives. On sept. 4,1792, 45 inmates of the prison in the Salpetrier were brutally murdered by a self appointed people s court. Behind the pantheon is the less publicized Church of St. Etienne do Mont which some claim is the most Beautiful Church in the French capital. Blaise Pascal the Geometric Ian and playwright Jean Baptiste Racine Are buried there As Well As the Church s Patron Saint St. Genevieve. In 1793, during the throes of the revolution her shrine was broken into and the remains thrown into the Seine a fact that does t prevent pilgrims thronging to her shrine where they View a remaining Finger of the Saint that has miraculous Powers attributed to it. Near notre Dame on the Small Seine Island of lie St. Louis is the doubly interesting Church of St. Louis in pile. First the mass murderer Landru served As an altar boy Here. Charlie Chaplin s Monsieur Verdoux is said to be modelled on Landru. Second it contains a painting that was executed by foot. Despite the fact that Cesar Duc Ornet was born in 1806 without arms he became a Painter of such Fame that his Home town 6 stripes Magazine april 3,1986