European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Walkon the of Paris continued from Page 7 was captured while trying to escape to Switzerland tried for treason and shot on dec. 7, 1815. According to an eyewitness account As the officer leading the firing squad started to run Down the list of Ney s Royal titles Ney interjected in his deep voice Why All the titles Michel Ney and nothing More and now please a bit of  and the shots were fired. Despite All the dramatics surrounding Ney s death a Rumor persists that he was t shot but banned to the United states where he died in 1846. According to the Rumor the due de Broglie visited Ney in prison on the eve of the execution. He told Ney Justice had been served with his trial and condemnation but to keep the Bona Artistes at Bay they intended to outfit the firing squad with Blanks. The fires of this Rumour Are fanned  obscure fact that around the beginning of 1816 a teacher of the French language named Peter Stewart Ney supposedly the spitting image of the famous marshal showed up in a Small town in South Carolina. And in the course of some restoration work in 1913, Ney s grave at Pere Lachaise was opened and found empty. The Glo serie Des Lilas is famous for the brass plates that Mark the favorite seats of patrons of the past Gide Giraudoux Strindberg Modigliani o stripes Magazine april 3,1986