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` May these precautions be successful ! May the wish , expressed upon these medals , be faithfully transmitted from generation to generation ! '' ` If I fix a day and hour , in which my inheritance shall irrevocably fall to those of my descendants who shall appear in the Rue Saint-Francois on the 13th February , in 1832 , it is that all delays must have a term , and that my heirs will have been sufficiently informed years before of the great importance of this meeting . '' ` After the reading of my testament , the person who shall then be the trustee of the accumulated funds , shall make known their amount , so that , with the last stroke of noon , they may be divided between my heirs then and there present . '' ` The different apartments of the house shall then be opened to them . They will see in them divers objects , well worthy of interest , pity , and respect -- particularly in the Hall of Mourning . '' ` My desire is , that the house may not be sold , but that it may remain furnished as it is , and serve as a place of meeting for my descendants , if , as I hope , they attend to my last wishes . ''