The Archive · 1937

Col, Count Lewis de Coutene

Paris, Mar, 7.

A veteran soldier believed to have been the Jast survivor of Papal troops that defended Rome valiantly but unsuccessfully in 1870 against the Italian Nationalist Army, Colonel Count Louis de Coutene, died at Nancy towday, aged 102, Count de Coutene was at that commander of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican which, after a short siege, was forced to surrender. The Count then (ook refuge In Franice and spent the greater part of the G7 remaining years of his life at Notcy.—Trans Ocean Kuo Min,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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