Sarrette
BERNARD, founder of the Conservatoire de Musique of Paris, was born in Bordeaux, Nov. 27, 1765. At the commencement of the Revolution he became an officer of the Garde Nationale.
Bulgarians the important city of Monas- After the fall of the Bastille, July 14, tir, in December, 1915. In December, 1789, he gathered together forty-five Q-Cyc Vol 8 SARRUSOPHONE SARTI musicians and created a corps de musique and was one of the first to introduce for the Garde. The municipality of Paris mezzotint engraving. In 1843 he became increased the body, and then authorized proprietor and editor of "Campbell's For- Sarrette to establish a free school, which eige Semi-Monthly Magazine," and therebecame the Institut National de Musique, after devoted himself to engraving and and finally the Conservatoire. Sarrette was for a time director, but for some reason, which is not quite clear, he was imprisoned for a month and a half, just before Robespierre's triumph. He never again resumed his functions, and he died in retirement at Paris, April 11, 1858.