A FRENCH GIRL. Her Experience at the Capital.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

A FRENCH GIRL. Her Experience at the Capital.

The career of a female enthusiast piofessed to have received, a mission to <>et everything I'ight in France has jubt- been closed for the moment in a cell in the prefecture of police. Maiio Co&terg, bom of humble villagers in Savoy, is said to have been subject in her childhood to reveries, ecstasies and other sensations of a mystic character, professed utmost piety, and had on one occasion, while climbing up a mountain, held a tete-a-tete with an apparition vaguely described by her as a white form which rovealed to her the high destinies which the future had in store for her. Inspired by these revelations, Marie Costerg resolved on making a move, and she went, not to Orleans, but to worldly and frivolous Paris. Her mission led her to take a small room in a quiet house, \\ Inch was furnished nun-like, with two chairs and a wallet. A few weeks in the metropolis inspired the saintly maHen witli more ambitious ideas. While writing to various per sonages, including several ministers, in the hope of obtaining interviews, she ordered furniture to the" amount of L4OO, and with those outward and visible signs of comfort and replies to her applications which she had to show, she soon succeeded in making dupes, especially among ladies ; but her furniture bill remaining unpaid, she was arrested and taken before a magistrate, who questioned her. She answered that she had been charged by a person well acquainted with the Comte de Paris and Prince Victor to come to an understanding with Jules Grevy for a repeal of the expulsion decrees. She added that there was also the idea of a coup d'etat; she had been working hard to save France through the return of the princes. All her prospects for the salvation of her country have fallen to the ground, for this new Joan of' Arc is now under lock and key.