Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1878 — A Parisian Beauty’s Revenge. [ARTICLE]

A Parisian Beauty’s Revenge.

An English Marchioness, resident in •the Legitimist faubourg, and avoiding the Napoleonites as “ low,” gave grand .parties.. Toone of these an English 4ady took, uninvited, a pretty Trepch woman, a friend of the Empress. The pretty woman made herself conspicuous by her prettiness and flirtations, but the Marchioness found out who she was, and was disgusted. She Said to her: “lam so conscious of the honor you "have done me that I dare not expect a repetition of. the unexpected- compliment." The pretty woman grew pale, but smiled, and ordered a cavalier 1 to order her carriage. The pretty woman was clever, and finessed a revenge. She bribed the Marchioness’ femme de chambre to give her the list of guests invited for the next soiree. Armed with this, she prepared a circular note, which she dispatched to each of the invited late in the afternoon of the appointed day: “The Marchioness pre-

sent* her compliments to so and so, and regrets that domestic calamity will prevent her,” etc. She then went to a great “ M*d Doctor," representing herself a* the daughter of the Marchioness, and acting with the consent of her Ladyship's family; she represented that her mother, the Marchioness, was afflicted with insanity, and her madness was in the delusion that she was always having great parties. For instance, if monsieur, the doctor, would go to her Ladyship’s hotel that evening, he would find her dressed in great splendor, with the salon illuminated, adorned with flowers, and buffets covered with refreshments. The doctor went, on the understanding that he was to obtain the proper police authority to take the Marchioness to Maison DeSante in the event of the representation made to him being Confirmed by his own observation. He arrived at ten in the evening; he was the first—the only—guest; and, though the Marchioness did not remember his name, she took it for granted that she had invited him, and was profusely civil. His manner puzzled and his questions startled her, and as he grew abrupt as his perception of her lunacy became more clear, she was at last offended and rang for her servants. At the same time he made the proper intimation of his police authority; and the end of the story is, that she was taken off by the doctor in hysterics, and detained as a prisoner in his asylum until the whole truth came out. All Paris was in roars, and the pretty flirt was a heroine forever. Protected by her august friend, she escaped retaliation—a British Marchioness is too grand for wit.