THE FRENCH SCANDAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2423, 21 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE FRENCH SCANDAL.

«. .— A UAi'-iiK message from London to the San I'Yanciseo Gall from Mr lOdinond Y.ites, of the World, under date. October 10, gives the following as th- , . origin and explanation of the French War Office scandal:—" The (JatF.uel-Liniouzin case in Paris is a sad scandal. Madame Limouzin is a vulgar adventuress. She is -11 years old, a humpbacked creature, with small peircing eyes. List year she lived in the Boulevarde 15on Mirche with a companion who called hereslf the Oointesse de Boisst'ire, B.uonne de Beauregard or Marquiso de Clonioncoau and whose real name is Henriette Boissy,a cocotte of the commercial type. Madame Limouxin also has a husband, an adventurer of small calibre, The latter carried on business of an influence agency for the benefit of persons desiring employment in the Ministries, promotion, Government contract, &o, In reality Madame Liinonzin and the Comtessc passed their time writing to politicians, notably Thibaudin and JBoulauger, the letters containing flattery, threats, calumnies, oit'ers of service and propositions of a compromising chiracter,a::n both Thibaudin and Biulanger finally warned the trio through the police to cease their inana'iivring. Then Limouzin and the 'Comtesse' quarrelled, and the former removed to a gorgeous suite of rooms in the Avenue Wagram, where she continued her agency and entered into relations with General Oaffarel an officer who was overwhelmed with debts and had no longer any sense of honour or decency. The 'Comtessc' denounced her former accomplice to the police. Then followed complaints fnm various sources and at length the police proceeded to watch Madame Limouzin. The detective sent to entrap Madame Liinouziti was taken by her to the Minister of War and introduced to C'llfarel, to whom the detective handed a sum of money, in return for which it was understood he would receive the cross of the Legion of Honor. This surprising discovery brought matters to a crisis. The Minister of War, in the presence of Rouvier, interrogated O-iffurol who confessed. Time was then impliedly gi'en him to blow his brains out, but he did not have the courage to take advantage of this supreme privilege. He is now in prison with Madame Limouzin. The case will be a formidable washing of dirty linen in fact, and the personages involved, and even the son-in-law of President Grevy, M. Daniel Wilson, is involved in many of Madame Limousin's tripotages. , '