The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-07
4 NOZZLE WOMAN.

Col. Blanton Duncan recently paid a vis
to Marshal Bazaine in prison and writes
very interesting letter In relation to it t.
Gen. Hancock. The Colonel thus describes
his interview with the wife of the Marshal
While we thus promenaded, Nine. )e Mare
chale came out and joined us, walking
between us and taking her full share in the
conversation. She is, as you know, Mcxi-
can, with dark, lustrous eyes, black eve
lashes, and EYEBROWS beautifully curved, a
mouth indicating unusual resolution, and a
radiant, lovely face, tingcd with carmine.
and lips like twin cherries or half-opened
rOsebuds. 1t seemed to me that every time
one OF her sunny glances fell upon the Mar
shall it seemed to warm and quicken the
blood in his veins. After all, if Il man must
be curtailed in liberty, the tate is greatly
amcliorated when such companion and
three charming children are present to chase
away gloom or sorrowful thoughts.
The wife is a prisoner, under axactly the
same regulations as her husband. For
weeks she has been there, circumscribed to
exactly the same limits, and denied COM
munication with the outside world, and not
even with liberty to read the newspapers
i said it was gratifying sight to any one
of true feeling to see such an exhibition Of
WhcIy uu'y dub '''S'''''' '''i i'ply w dS
worthy one:
In Mexico the women as well rs the men
are all brave. They never desert friends in
extremity. When | married the Marshal
was seventeen. He was at the summit of
power, with fortune and friends to support
his future, and NOT a shadow to overcast it.
He gave me that bright and erviabie posi-
ton, and when that power and fortune ana
friends have vanished, my place is by his
side to share the crust OF bread and all the
privations with the same devotion and af-
lection that were due to him in the zenith
of his prosperity"
An admirer of yours wrote charming
article about you some time ago in Paris
paper
al did not see it. But don't care that
for public opinion (snapping her fngers).
The outrageous treatment Of the Marshal
has made me as utterly Indifferent to it as
ii none existed"
'In fact said /, this wretched French
nation has metamorphosed you into lovely
hippopotamus, with the simple cruel condi-
ton that they will not permit you to enter
that flashing water which is kissing the
rock beneath
She said that the Marshal was cheerful and
never sad. Had nothing really to be sad
about unless for the ingratitude and treach-
cry of former professed friends. That and
the cowardly manner in which he had been
treated could give rise to no Other feelings
than those of disdain or Indignation.
There is very mistaken idea prevalent
about this family. Bazaine had no fortune,
and acquired nothing when in Mexico. The
gifts to his wife We're cOntiscatcd after the
fall of MaXimillian. Mrs. Bazaines mother
Is in very moderate circumstances, and now
resides in Mexico. As a Senator and Mar
sha!, :azaines income and allowance were
quite handsome, probably reaching 100000
francs "A year. Since stripped of position
his resources probably do not exceed 5000
francs income. He has modest residence
in Paris, which will be sold as soon rs al
vantageons.
Col. Villettc, his aide, who has shown so
much devotion, is now in Paris arranging
his affairs. He has obtained permission
from the government to return and const- |
tute himself Il prisoner and share the for
tunes of his chief