3-065-590 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. J. A. Galignani, of Paris, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Bingham. 'English tourists and residents all over the Continent of Europe are familiarly acquainted with Galignani's Messenger, that most convenient and readable daily compilation of home and foreign news, which has been punctually issued, during many years past, from its office at the favourite reading-rooms of our countrymen, in the Rue de Rivoli, at Paris. [John Anthony], the elder of the two brothers Galignani, who founded and have conducted this useful journal, died a few days after Christmas..Both the Messrs. Galignani were decorated by the French Government with the Legion of Honour. They also received from the British Government, in 1866, a special token of approbation...to acknowledge their benevolent efforts for the relief of distressed British subjects in Paris. It was the late Mr. Galignani who founded near Paris the charitable establishment known as the "Galignani Hospital," intended specially for indigent English sick persons; and he, conjointly with his brother, defrayed the whole expense of building, in the vicinity of their country residence, the present large hospital at Corbeil, in a very healthy situation, and with extensive grounds attached'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.