The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-12-16
WOMEN DuELisrs.
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While dueIing continues to be one of
{ the foremost questions Of the day, says
/ D Paris letter, it may Interest You read
I ers to learn that in times gone by
j French ladies as wei as gentlemen
. went out sur Ie terrain to defend their
I honor or their love Perhaps the most
/ celebrated of these female encounter
I was that which took place between the
MarqUise de EesIs and the Confess do
Z EoLiguas- Both fen ia love with the
/ 1IaFechal de Bfchelieu and disputed his
/ favors-at least so the old chronielara
/ tell US The marshal, however, does
4 not appear to have been equal to the
/ occasion and made "a great mistake In
dealing with his admirers. He gave "a
/ rendezvous TO both, but forgot TO name
/ the date and hour, the consequence OF
{ which was that the two rivals found
/ themselves unexpectedly face TO face lu
] his salon A quarrel enzued. and 10
] was agreed to sight it ont with pistols
] The meeting was fixed for g o'clock ia
/ the morning In the Bois de EouIoguc,
/ You can fire first If you like, % said Mime.
/ de PoIignac cooIIy to her adversary.
-lmc- de Nesle accepted the generous
I otfer and fred, but to no effect Rage
/ has made your hand tremble5' re-
{ zpouded the countess with O sarcastic
T smile, and firing ia her turn, she split
I the right ear of the marguise, who fell
: to the ground as if she had been killed
/ Another lady of whose exploits the
/ chrouiciers are full was Nine. d'Au-
/ biguy better known as Mile. dc Mau-
{ pin. She was born i'm the latter half of
/ the seventeenth century Daughter of
/ one of the secretaries of the COmts a.
T ArnaEuaCr sho was married TO young
functionary, but soon left him TO lead a
. ar.# "a ~ nH
acquaintance of fencing master
named Serane, with whom she fsll in
love as he was giving her lessons They
I ran away together to AIarseilles, where
having exhausted their resources, they
Joined a company of strolliug players
On her return to Paris she was engaged
at the opera. 1t was at this period that
she distinguished herself by her ecceu-
tricities- She was fond of DOMINIC NAL
attire, and going out at night in search
of amusement One night, while exc
pLoriug the Quarter des VICTORIES she
/ came across the actor Dumesuh, on
whom she resolved to play a joke.
Drawing her rapier she attacked him.
made him go on his knees, and deliver
up his purse and Jewels The next day
he related to his brother actors how he
had been assailed by band of b-igands,
against whom he fought for some time
killing two of them, but finally had to
succumb to numbers billie de AIaupiu,
who was present at the story, burst out
laughing, and COMPOUNDED the braggart
by returning the purse and jewels she
had stolen from him on the previous
night.
Among other anecdotes told of her is
the following; A ball was given at the
palais Royal to which she managed TO
obtain entrance in her masculine dress /
During the evening she spotted "a
q IN ID.
INDUCED in such improper proposals .
that three friends of the offended lady
demanded reparatiou on the spot. She
wished Tor nothing better, and straight
way the party went out into the gar
den, where, it is said, she killed her
three opponents, and then resumed
dancing as If nothing had happened. .
Such was the favor she enjoyed that
nobody thought of prosecuting her, not I
wirhstGuding the rigorous laws against .
dueling then i'm force.
A few days after this adventure .
Mile. Periguou, one of La Aaupin's ]
comrades at the opera, was iusultsd by
a Gascou named Servur- Our heroine,
again disguised as "a man, took up tho
matter, smacl1ed Guscou's face, and i'm .
the duel which eusucd, wounded him
seriously i'm the arm This was the last
time she was heard of in the dueliug
world, the police having threatened to- .
arrest her. She suddenly left Paris for I
Brussels. where she turned all the
heads of the giIded youth by her sweet I
singing and captivating beauty. Count .
Albert, of Bavaria, made her his mis- ]
tress- but the union did not last long. I
The count got enamOured of another .
siren, and sent La Aaupin 40, 600 francs /
as ca parting gifts but she returned the .
money, and was on the point of attack .
ing her rival when she was ordered to I
leave brussels Immediately. She then I
went to Spain, where she became the .
femme de chumbre of a Countess Ma.
riuo. Ultimately she returned to Paris I.
and sang again at the opera; but she 7
was no longer the pet Of the audience, ]
and tried In vain to please it. Sick and I
tired of her adventurous life, she left 1
the opera and 1T is believed ended her /
days iu a convent
Coming later down the court chroni- I
cIers introduced MS to several other .
lady dueiists. One of them talks of Ca .
lady who went out on horseb back, with .
top boots, sword by her side and pis-
tolls i'm her holsters she had uumer-
Gus encounters, notably one with q
Comte de Cordisre, who was guilty OF .
disdainiug her favors. The count, like .
a gallant man. did not seek to do her
any harm, but merely to tire her out,
in which he succeeded so well that she T.
fell TO the ground exhausted, and was
forced to demand pardon. This lesson,
however did not cure her of her pug
nacity, and iu her next duel she was
killed outright Her sister was "a virago .
of the same stamp she complained of .
her husbands iuhdClity and attacked I
him with a rapier, but she got the worst I
of &c, being wounded in the arm and /
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