Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27

Clemence Blossier is young
French girl, 16 years old. All true
lovers should learn her name-not tC
emulate her exploits, for the unfortu
nate Clemance is serving a prison sen
tence of ten years at hard labor but
because she appeals to the lover and
to all the world which loves a lover
as one who has done much and suffer
lions.
When Cupid in the final adjustment
of human affairs calls the roll of his
disciples who have sacrificed much
and gained little for him he will read
the names of Medea, Antony, Fran
cesca and Paolo Dante and Beatrice,
Romeo and Juliet, and other
illustrious ones, and the name of
Clemence Blossier will be among
them.
The story of Clemence is one Of
parental ire, true devotion, burning
village, bold lover, swift horse and
a rapid flight, still more rapid pur-
suit and then the prison, where the
girl will toll away her young years
of grace and beauty and from which
she will emerge a broken down
woman.
1t is a story of love in which the
emotional actress could have free
rein, which would have climax
every five minutes and sensational
scene at every step, one which would
keep the gallery critics in one con
tinuous round of applause.
In the village of Anvers, near
Pontoise, the romance of Clemence
began. She fell in love with Jules
Hondrieu, a young cavalry soldier
stationed in the barracks at Pontoise.
When Clemence was working in the
fields with her father and her
brothers, the dashing Jules would go
by on the road with his squadron and
the girl would stand and gaze until a
sharp rebuke from her father brought
her back to her work.
Then Jules found a way to be
strolling through the woods when
Clemence went for the cows and after
several times without the herd the
family decided that one of the
younger brothers had best take that
work.
The peasant, who was head of the
Blossicr, looked with distrustful eyes
at the young soldier who came court
ing his daughter. A sedate farmer of
the vicininty had beea selected as the
husband oil Clemence and her mar
riage portion had been agreed upon.
That should have been enough to
settle the matter, but 1t was not.
The sedate farmer was old and
Clemence would have none of him.
Blossier ordered the cavalry off
the place, but the insolent Jules just
twisted his mustache and scowled at
the peasant until Blossier trembled.
Then he laughed and met Clemence
on the road
When matters had come to a state
OF open rebellion in the Blossier house
hold the father asserted his authority
and the girl was locked in her room,
held a prisoner under lock and key
and the shrewd peasant even put
heavy iron bars on the windows of
her room. Then he laughed at Jules
and shrugged his shoulders as the
heavy cavalryman rode up and down
the road and whistled in vain for
Clemence.
To his daughter he said that Le-
hind the bars she staid on coarse
bread and water until she came out to
marry the sedate farmer. To which
Clemence said never, an unusual
thing for a peasant girl of France to
say to her father when the subject is
marriage.
SO Clemence staid within her
barred room and cried. Jules rode up
and down the road and swore, Pere
Blossier shrugged his shoulder and
laughed, and the sedate farmer pa