A FAMOUS FISHERWOMAN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2163, 9 December 1875, Page 2

A FAMOUS FISHERWOMAN.

A life which formed a carious Jink I between this century and the last has just been ended. La Mere Mars, the i doyenne poissarde or fzsherwoman of the j Halles, has just died at the age of 97, in a lodging near the Rue St. Louis, which she occupied time out of mind. Her speciality was freshwater fish. She was ■ the daughter of the Marquis de Juita Nantz, executed in the Reign of Terror! and of Madame de la Motto Valois, the artificer of the diamond necklace intrigue. A fury of the Revolution took pity on the little girl, when she was blowing a kiss to the Marquis on his way to the scaffold, and adopted her. She left her a fish stall at the Halles. This descendant of the Kings of France—for Antoine de Bourbon was an undoubted ancestor of Madame de la Motte—had no other ambition thaa to get through life honestly. She was supposed to have made a good deal of money with her trout and crawfish. La Mere Mars was a fine'looking, robust old woman; and generally superior to the poissarde sisterhood., She could not have resembled her mother, who was of little form and a delicate oral face. The fishwoman who..has just died remembered Cagliostro, Cardinal de Rohan, and Marie Antoinette, whom she saw going to be executed. Her early;years were spent in the mansion of the Marquis Juxta Nantz, in the Rue Turenne,