A HEROINE IN PARIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2608, 30 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

A HEROINE IN PARIS.

— -♦ Madame Astk be Valsayre is undoubtedly the heroine of the hour iu Paris, and her latest deed of daring forms a topic of conversation which eclipses in interest the doings of the Bundinists and Boulangists. The esteemed lady-duellist and debator is not only a theoretical, but also a consummately practical, champion of the " rights" of her sex—a fact which was proved beyond dispute or contradiction by the feat which she has just accomplished in the Rue de Vanves, uot, be it remembered, with her foils, with which she is a "past mistress," but with her fists. It appears that during Monday afternoon a man with revolving eyes and rolling gait, which betokened his reent exit from a dramshop wherein he had been imbibing more petits-verrcs or more pctit-blcii than was good for him, was amusing his maudlin moments by leering at and insulting all the pretty women whom he met in the course of his wild and wandering walk abroad. Luckily for the interests of the insulted members of her sex, little Madame de Valsayre " came along," as the Americans say, just at the right moment, took in the situation at a glance, and, as the unsteady person was addressing an amorous observation to a quietiy-dressed young woman who was in a state of great alarm, the terrible champion of all suffering females gave him with lightning-like rapidity not one. but two, "in the eye." Predestined, no doubt, by numerous potations for his fall, the maudlin annoyer of maids and matrons was sent sprawling into the gutter. Instead, however, of " coming up, smiling " after the blows of the lady champion, the drunkard returned to his feet, bleeding and discomfited. Seeing Madame de Valsayre still maintaining an aggressive pugilistic attitude before him, ho managed to beat a tolerably sober retreat to an adjacent police station, amid the loud laughter of the assembled bystanders. A. gamin who was one of the spectators of the lively incident took off his cap and led a chorus of Gallic cheers, known as vivats, for the pugilistic protectress of the weaker vessels. Madame de Valsayre, in due course, and according to t!«3 usual statutes provided and enacted by wise lawgivers for the proper preservation of the public peace, received a summons from the police for assault and battery, but the defendant in tho action thus instituted against the lady will be very impervious to public ridicule indeed if he drags her into court. ____„»_«__