River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-22
A FRENCH WOMAN spy.
The Career of an Adventures of World
Wide Notoriety.

The Career of an Adventures of World
Wide Notoriety.
The career Of Mime Millescamp. the
woman recently convicted of espionage
by the criminal court of Paris. would
furnish abundant material for a sensa-
tional romance. Her maiden name was
Marie Foret She worked "a dress
making and gave lessons in music.
She was a well-educated and handsome
young woman. In 1868 she married
one Gennot, rich and stupid man, who
for many years remained completely
under her control. Shortly after
her marriage she determined to see the
world. and turned her husband into
traveller. With him she went to Phila-
delphia and lived there q couple of
years. Then she came to New York
and remained here for some time, en-
gagged in business. Next she turned up
in Buenos Ayres. 1t became too hot
for her there and she proceeded at once
to Berlin, where she led gay life and
moved for a time in high society. From
Berlin she went to live in London, and
continued there her old style of life.
At last her husband got tired of her
and thought it was high time for him
to go to California, or to South Amer
lea, and keep himself beyond the reach
of his fast and extravagant better half
This he did and Mime. Gennot was good
enough not TO take the thing too much
to heart She reported that he was
dead and in 1850 returned to Paris,
where she married NJ Millescamps, a
well to do business man. In a short
time she brought him to the verge of
bankruptcy. But somehow or other
she managed to get well-off again.
Just where her funds came from re-
manned mystery. On coming down
somewhat in funds again she started
store in the Rue de Bretagne, where
she sold religious books, pictures and
statuettes As she was remarka BILE for
her piety. good Christians patronized
her, and for three years the business
flourished In 1884 Millescamps died
suddenly, and some of the pious wild
ow's neigh bors were left under the inn
preston that she facilitated his depar-
ture for better world. This suspicion,
however, did not materialize. After
the death of her husband No. she car
ried on the business on her own ac-
count. In the evenings she received
company. Her little salon was fire.
quented by cosmopolitan group. She
was lingust, a conversationalist and
an accomplished musician.
But in addition to her religious es-
tablishment, she carried on in another
quarter of the city a matrimonial bu-
reau and also a table-turning taberna-
Gle, at which she was always the lead
ing spirit. In the art of teaching the
tables how to dance and talk with their
legs she had no equal in Paris Won
derful stories are told of her interviews
with the departed, and it is said that
many prominent men, including Lord
Lytton (''Owen Meredith'O, often con-
suited her.
After time she abandoned the spir-
its and devoted herself to the more
profitable business of espionage. Ac-
cording to a prominent man on the
Paris police, women are at present the
most numerous and the most active
agents in this business The police
has its eye on many of them, but they
are hard to catch. Mime. Millescamps'
nature was too bold and incautious to
fit her for a long career in her new
profession. She took large contracts
and great risks, and was ''pinched' at
last The evidence against her was
conclusive, and she was sentenced to
five years imprisonment y Sun