A Patriotic Woman.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Patriotic Woman.

At No. 15, Rue Yandamme, in Paris now live", in comparative obscurity and poverty, at the age of 52 years, Annette Drevon, the cantiniere of the second regiment of zouaves, who for thirty years has followed the changing fortunes of the French army ; in Africa, in the Crimea, in Italy, and on the banks of the Rhine. Her history is curious, and the story of her adrentureB would fiil columns. She has given in several instances proof of courace and patriotism worthy of the greatest praise. At the bloody battle of Magenta she succeeded, in the face of a severe fire, in saving the flag of the regiment, which some Austrian soldiers were carrying off, and for this glorious feat she was dec< rated with the cross of the Legion of Honor. During the war with Prussia she followed the thirty-second of the line < >ne day, after the armistice, and in the neighbourhood of Ihionvillo, she was grossly insulted upon the public road by two Bavarian soldiers. Drawing her pistol, in oue short moment the foremost

L»y % thin* Or«r which th«r-iven flapped his funeral wine. Ihe other abandoned the field at once Bhe was aooa arrested, taken to Metz, tried for her life by a drumhead courtmartial, and sentenced to death She was eavtfd by the efforts of Prince Frederick Charles, who was then at Metz, und, hearing that a woman was to be shot, Hent for and examined the papers connected with the case, demanded and obtained her pardon, and sent her to Paris, where by hard work she now earns a very scanty living.