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A Character Who l'ntH Recen tly Adorned French Legislativo llalls. The French chamber of deputies has lost an original character in the person of M. de Oaste, deputy for Krest, says the London Globe. Ho was a simple, honest fellow, and enjoyed the esteem not only of his colleagues of the left but also of his ad versarles on the right. He made himself celcbrated by his everlasting fur coat, which he wore in all scasons, and which earned for him the name of "Pere iliver." Ha was likewise irreverently called "L'HommeChi'.'n," n account of his shaggy hair and whiskers which he allowed togrow in wild profusión and made him look like a Skye terrier. His umbrella, his hat and particularly the cut of his clothes also rendered him famous. His colleag-ues smlled, but liked him none the less for his eccentricities. He had one great day in the chamber. wlien as doyen d'age in the place of M. Pierre Blanc, who was unv.ell. he presided over the first sitting of the session. On that occasion he delivered a speech in which he embraced every political question under the sun. and might have gone on the house till doomsday had he not found it suddenly empty. He was most assiduous, arriving1 the first and leaving the last. He was bom in 1811, and was originally a civil engineer of the first class. Unlike most of his republican colleagues, he was a staunch Catholic. Every day as regular as clockworkihe would mount the tribune andbringjforward some unexpected motion which, much to his sorrow, was invariably shelved. Once, however, his motion was passed, and nobody was more surprised than himself. Of later years he took to female emancipation, and attended the meetings of the strong-minded sisterhood, to which two of his daughters belong. At home in his native Brittany he was beloved by all for his eenerosi v and the pleasnre he took in doing service to his fellow-countrymen. II is curious figure will long be rememberecl.