A CURIOUS PHASE OF PARISIAN LIFE.
A ctmiocs phase of Parisian life has just been brought into public prominence by the trial of a powerful man named Jourdain for theft. This robust individual was a potman in the service of a wine-seller named Guibert. While employed in bis duties he captivated, by his athletic proportions, tlio heart of Madame Guibert, a little sentimental person, who soon showered on her favourite gifts of every description. Jourdain one day pretended to be weary of his life as an ignoble potman, and Madame Guibert made him leave her husband’s establishment, and put him in comfortable lodgings, paid hit rent, and supported him in semi-regal state. The spoiled swain waxed fat and kicked. He made his mistress hand over to him from time to time nearly £I,OOO of her husband’s money, besides clothes and jewels. Jourdain was condemned to two years’imprisonment and to pay £l4O damages. As ha was being removed from the dock his old master, Guibert, cried out, “ Ah, you rascal ! you’re caught at last';” to which Jourdain replied by a sarcastic jest.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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181A CURIOUS PHASE OF PARISIAN LIFE. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2352, 6 August 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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