The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-27
FRENCH WOMEN As SOLDIERS.
Seine ~ Their Feats q Arms En- the Field
al Battle.

Seine ~ Their Feats u Arms En- the Field
of Battle.
The town Of Grenoble has remembered.
after 200 years. that il owe something to
. gallant lady and has DECIDED to erect an
equestrian statue in honor Of tho valiant
and gracious Demoisslle Phyllis do Ia
CHARGE dc Il Tour du Pin. In cooked hat
and coat Of . grenadier. holding aloft her
trusty sword, with curls falling over her
shoulders, tho sculptor gives us in bronze,
says the London STANDARD. the present.
ment OF this fair warrior maid.
She 10 only one Of 4 long list Of the
daughters OF France who nave upheld the
traditions Of their raoe and honored tho
history Of their sex. France. the country Of
Joan Of Arc and Jeanne Hachette. has
always boasted the wit and courage Of its
ladies. and the Echo de Paris recalls In
abiding to the proposed statue a Few Of
the most illustrious Of these. Phyllis de
la Tour du Pin was one Of that race Of hero
ines whom theg genius Of Tasso and Ariosto
has immortalized under the names OF
Corinda and B~radamante. simple and
modest and pure in their private lives.
fearless and free in the field.
Those who care to read may earn from
the old chronicles how Phyllis equipped a
company OF her vassals and putting her.
self at their head rode boldly through
the plains from Gap a Die TO valence to
guard the passes through which the mer-
cenaries. Of the Duke OF Savoy were hop
ing to invade the Dauphine. Sufice il to
saw that she alone held Dauphin< for France
and justified the device Of her illustrous
house. .Chez nous femme vaut homme."
Her Ieat of arms brings up the memories Of
many another heroine.
In the troublous days OF the Fronde,
when the rivers were tinted with blood and
the scent Of the iris was mixed with the
acrid smell Of powder, was IL not q princess
Of the blood royal, the Grande Mademoiselle
herself who. accompanied by her two friends
Mines. de Tiesque and de Montenac, put
herself az the head Of an army and seized
the town OF Orleans. q appanage Of her
father, CASTOR d'0reans. brother Of Louis
KILL? In the fight in the Faubourg st. An
tome the royal -~frondelse' herself insisted
on setting the match to the touchhole of
the first cannon that Numbered from the
Bastille to cover the retreat Of Condo.
Under the Grand Roi again the charming
Mile. de Premoy covered herself with glory
under the name Of the Chevaliere de Bal
thassr. Among the vendeens how many
M ssneee de- s%onch M%s Nine NJ "o de- SapInsnd
Mile. Renee Borderean and Nine. de Beau
glis. the last one leading a troop OF horse
of her own, with carbinc slung at her back.
And there were other heroisms h a those
Of the sword and battle. Listen To Olympic
de GouRe demanding the right to defend
Louis XVI. at the bar OF the convention
with the words: Women who have the
right to mount the scafYold have also the
right to appear AT the bar" And Nine.
de la Roche-st; Andre, crying through the
bars Of her prison to her sons, who were
being taken out to execution: @Good-by,
my children. Adieu! Die like vend&ens!"'
And Virginie Ghes0uif 70. who thought
her brother too delicate for service under
Junot in the Army Of the Republic. but not
Distinguishing herself in Portugal. she q
promoted to be sergeant. and nobody found
out the pions fraud AZ the jill sergser'. a.
she vas ~nicknsmed. until one day she wa
FOUNDED in trying to resc,ie her colonel;
to have her wound attended to until the
gruH old army surgeon shouted. "Cndress
hat man there and let mo sew up his hide"
Then the secret was out. n Napoleon
eave her the coveted Cross. like her oom-
rade Marie Scheliinck. better known a.
the Sergeant OF J~emmApes."
Ang6ligue Duchemin. too. went through
the campaigns a Lieut.. D~nchemin. vas
decorated In 1851 and ended her days at
the Invalides. These are only a few Of
those mentioned In the Echo. hut, coming
down-to our own times, II is evident that
the spirit Of her ancestors still lives In the
French woman to-day.
In the worst Of the Armenian massacres
Mime. Cartier. the wife OF the French Con-
saved hundreds Of lives. pistol in hand;
and II is not a fortnight since Mime. Fourier
at Casablanca was recommended for the
Cross for similar g~aIlantry in the fac Of
odds. All thess will have their niche. even
II IL he a small one. In history. but one IL
tApnpfed in anita IF tho admiratinn thar
courage conpels. to ask II their epitaphs
will ono them more than The inscription
over the tomb Of a Roman matron. @She
remained at home and spun wool