New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-29
Tem;Dork Dailp arihums
ANAMERlCAN WOMAN IN PARIS No xyxI


quite populous American village Five ,houssnd off
GERS and soldiers can find heres quiet retreat where their
wounds may be healed and their declining year, soaod
by their eountry's care.
fou can estimate for yourselves the probable average
OF men complete which these fragmentary veterans y,
equal We various items in movement as If in natural
gravtston toward their fellows like the bits Of the fbed
chopped.up monster seeking their original unity Here
an eye; there an sa there lone forenger; there an
arm without mate; there body waiting for its legs
and no legs without body but curious remark
every fellow has somehow saved his head and seems TO
prize it for the facilities it affords for smoking.
Every stranger vss the marvellous kitchens Of the es-
fabthmept and makes his excamatons its daily sta
tstes" 5000 pounds Of meat 20 bushels carrots ditto
"onions, ditto potatoes, 5000 eggs" &c. Every body
sees the bullet that killed Turenne and have courage
to mount to the gsrets to the plans Of the fortified
towns Of Europe. Those who do miss Of it, visit the
tomb Of Napoleon for these the cataogued sights of
the lnvades; but all omit Of unique which
the present generation have almost forgotten
Lieutenant Madame Brulon entered the Hotel more than
fifty gears ago and is the only female soldier United
to receive i's support Every champion of woman
psbilites would find in her column Of suppor-a pedestal
on which 10 rest his principles.
ADaelique Marie Joseph Duchemn was born in l772
from that hobed Of heroes which four years before had
produced the immortal trio, Napoleon, Wellington,
Cbaoubriand Twenty years later found her upon the
most exciting stage which the world has ever known.
Louis XVI was beheaded and France Republic. An
geIique was wife, mother, widow, cheyenne,
soldier in the of liberty. She served years in
the various capacities Of private, corporal, corporaour
rier and sergeanmaor. AT the age OF 27, in the year
1899, she admitted TO the Hotel, not because she
a woman, widow mother, but by her right and merit
as wounded soldier. There she received her support
and the small pay allowed to non-commsoned officers
and in addition to this for time, salary Of ESQ
year as clerk in the magazine Of clothing At the age Of
IS the became the chief of this department with salary
of $3.50 per annum. By her economy she enabled 70
establish ber daughter and recently to aid her grand
children and great grandchldeD and last Sunday when
went her she offered bon bons received after
the Christening Of one Of a still later generation.
The father Of hf heroine served 80 consecutive years
in the 42d Regiment now the 57th Of the line. He
arred at the Havre-Apgeque born in garrison at
Dnon in The Dorh of France. The soldiers bivouac was
her only youthful home.
At the age of she wife, at eighteen q
mother at twenty widow Her husband fell at Ajacco
il Coea "Ihree days after learned his fate says
Madame Brulop, took the uniform OF his regiment and
demanded permission TO avepge his death. Two broth
had fallen in active service our father had died On
the field Of baitemy heart head and hand burned to
send destruction to the English aud the rebel Corsicans
" and my Testimonials tell how well fulfilled my VOWS"
Then she told us the history Of the siege OF Calvi.
Eleven months they had been blockaded, seventyfve
days bombarded but she brought relief TO the garrison Of
The fort Of Gesco and the Of the Legion Of II nor
on her br, at is ber counrys acknowledgment of her
heroic acton.
But read her comrades testimonials
1--WE the undersigned corporal and soldiers of the de-
tacbnent Of tie 42d Regiment in garrison at Cav certify
and attest that the 5th Prairia the year III 7s4) the
c,tosonae Angelique Marie Joseph Duohemin, widow
Brulon corporaourrier performing the functions OF ser
gesnt in the action at the fort OF Gesco
she fought with with the courage OF herone
that the rebel Gorcans and the English having attempted
as,ault, Obliged to fight hand to hand; mat
she received saber cut in the right arm ana moment
after ano her from syle in the left that finding we
failed Of ammunition though severely wounded, SIZE set
out at midnight for Calvi mile and half distant where,
by the and zeal Of true republican she raised
and charged with ammunition sixty women whom she led
escorted by four wh ,h enabled us to repuse
,be enemy ana 70 INC or mann sma or a. commaoae
" Signed etc
Madame Brulon added, did not mind my wounds in
each arIn nor did fear the dark, but set out alone at
midnight evaded the guards, reused sixty starving
"women and led them to the fort which we reached at
I" trO o'clock in the morning. We gave the women each
half pound of rice wh,ch all considered an excel
" lent bargain"
Still later at the siege Of Cavi, all the cennoners hav
ing been killed the pon-commssioned officers called
upon TO fiji their places; it thus, while defending
bason in aiming sixe. npounder that she was wound
ed in the left leg by the bursting Of a bomb
This last wound disabled her for service and entitled her
TO place in the Hotel des Invalides.
October o. 1922, upon the proposition OF General DE
Laour MaSboug Governor OF the lnvaides she eceNeu
the grade Of - Lieutenant, in these terms:
Mad .me Rrulon, military invalid having heid the
rank of sergeant before her 20 tn Hotel mas oo
tain, from the boones of the King Lons XVIII the
bonoru BILE rank of I'd Lieutenant aud will be mus recog
niz,d hereafter ON parade The Gosernor hastehs 10
make known by means of this order tbs new iavSr o
Hi, Majesty accorded Ia one who has rehoereu 80
worth, of Il by her excellent principles her gooo sen
ments and the high corsderatioh WHICH sno oe'''' " -
Hotel. Signed,
Dupr the reign of the first Napoleon che was recon-
epded by tie Governer Of the Invades as one having
rendered herself worthy, by qualities considered ABOVE
her Sex TO participate the reeonpense created ir the
braxe But the henor OF decorat ng this remarkable
xoman was reserved forNapoeon, President OF the Re
,ubic Madame Brulon lives nov not only the unique
military male Invalid bat the unique female menoer o
the Society OF the Fjs,eh Legion Of Honor. her nom
nation was announced IN the MonaeaT OF the lsh August
,s, a, the head OF long list Of Others, wtheuf any a
lusioD TO her eek, thus; " ,h, Sooo,a
I;.,tepapt-seyen yeaTs se-vicc-seven ca'nPaGhsI
thIee wounds-seveTs times distingaished Pa,us ny
in Corsica in d, Tending fort against the Enshs" ~
PIs ial-ye III, tl794.j' ~
Madame BYulon ,louesa years of age retain' all the
vvsoi,y Of youthful cxpsssaon and assured Us 81.
faculty missing but that guide well her ee' tnc s"'
~ M ,o become more refractory than the wounded one
oa,s the uniform of the Invalides, and snco ner
=, aao6ion Of mil tary dress, has never ie' oa'
nA tbst f,r moments a-susasen 10 her grahuehn~
- o., che assumed female attire. But the enidreh, W
"A ad of beinc amused burst iIs tears, ana oegseu IA"
spsdpa,u ma TO 20 back again to as- soldiers cI'nes
w ssyeral of her portraits taken At different ages
,d ,,re presented with late Ithsgraph which Is an eI