A FRENCH GIRL.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 55, 4 July 1887, Page 7

A FRENCH GIRL.

Her Experience at the Capital. tecareer of a female enthusiast who pro- '■■ fussed to; have .received :a mission to set .eretytbuig.right in Prance has just been closed for the moment in a cell in the prefecture of police. Marie Costerg, born of humble villagers in Savoy, is said to have been subject in her childhood to reveries, ecstasies and other sensations of amysfcic character, professed utmost piety, and had • «n one occasion, while climbing up a mountain, held a tete-a-tete with an apparition vaguely described by her as a white form which revealed to her the high destinies which the futuro had in store for her. Inspired by these revelations, Marie wisterg resolved on making a move, and we went, not to Orleans, but to worldly and frivolous Paris. Her mission led her to a*e a small room in a quiet house, which waa furnished nun-like, with two chairs and sill fu ■ v weaks in the metropolis inBpifedthe saintly niaHen with more amWoas ideas i While writing to various per W^ 3,^ ludin S severa ministers, in the Si° 9 x" M ," in « interviews, she ordered ■ lurniture, te the amount of L4OO, and with thfce outward and visible signs of comfort & P v 63t0 her aPPiicafcions which she flWtoeW, she, soon succeeded in making ■by afe Ye 1:e v thab Bhe had been char S<*l flndSuv 'T YlCtor t0 come t0 an JMa tending with. Jules Grevy for a romVt ex P^ 10 " decrees. She added ■ Srft was a ¥ the ° f a c ™p x^ tST T kmj i Y rd t0 France p2l fr e^ urn I the princes - Au ber wffi ♦ . e , Balvation of her cou » tr y Kofl"^ 0 the^round . -this new ■ Ot. Aw is Dow u nder lock and key. '