Article: Great-grandson of Butte copper king tours historic Mining City sites.

Byline: Roberta Forsell Stauffer

Oct. 23--A great-grandson of William A. Clark walked mine yards and mansions in Butte this month, some 130 years after the copper king started up a bank in a log building near Main and Broadway.

Retired French Ambassador Andre Baeyens had visited Butte once before, 25 years ago.

He still laughs at the memory of paying $2 to see the Copper King Mansion in 1980 and not revealing his identity until mid-way through the tour.

Once his secret was out, then-owner Ann Cote Smith took Baeyens into the kitchen for a nice long visit and walked him down to the Arts Chateau, former home of his grandfather. Never did ...

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