A PARISIAN SCANDAL.

Thames Star, Volume XXI, Issue 3780, 8 February 1881, Page 2

A PARISIAN SCANDAL.

The topic of topics in: Paris is the ; General de Cissey scandal, and it is a dirty one. Colonel Jung married, some twenty years ago, a very pretty Bavarian. Iv 1870 she eloped with the brother of the Prefect of Bayonne; the husband obtained a judicial separation, and the sole "custody of his two children. The repudiated wife farmed her good looks and turned her acute intelligence to account as a political adventuress. One of her captures was De Cissey, a widower, and verging on the Psalmist's span of life. She became his mistress, had the run of the "War Office, peeped into secret papers and notified her discoveries to the German Embassy. She prevailed upon General to use his' influence to thwart her husband in his private affairs, and two official letters pro* r duced from him on the trial, of .ColonWl/ Jung against the Gaulois, a JBonapartistJ organ, for defamation, led to his being removed from the command of an army corps. He was compelled to resign in 1879 by MacMahon, rather abruptly, on Jung 5 exposing his sufferings and threatening to shoot De Cissey. Madame Jung, like all stars of the demi-monde, took an ariatdcratic title—dubbed herself "Baroness " Eaulla. She was very poor before she had ensnared ■ De Cissey ; the liason made her suddenly rich. Germany, though a poor nation, pays handsomely for espionage, it is asserted; besides the baroness had a finger, it is said, in the awards of the army contracts. So much for the first act. The second is about opening- The Baroness is taking actions against the Gaulois, ■■ her husband, De Cissey—every one in fact; not to justify her "virtue," but to clear herself of .the deeper charge of being a spy. Her aim is to produce documents that will cause some diplomatic unpleasantness, and show up many high-placed individuals.