A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6255, 3 December 1881, Page 7

A ROMANTIC INCIDENT.

The London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph says : —Few operatic artists have had so romantic a career as Madame Marie Roze. The following anecdote is only one of a number of almost equal interest. During the siege at Paris no citizen worked harder for the defence than this intrepid Frenchwoman. She organised an ambulance, and supported it by giving concerts and dramatic performances. All the patriotic young men were madly in love with her, and she received innumerable offers of marriage from admirers in all ranks of society. A young marquis threatened her with a terrible punishment if she did not accept his suit. He invited her to meet him, and swore he would permanently disfigure her if she did not come. She met him in the Bois de Boulogne, and as he spoke four commissiaries of police rushed from their places of concealment and secured him. In his pocket was found a bottle of vitrol. But this failure did not thwart his purpose. He still vowed revenge, and having escaped from prison when the Commune was declared, might have carried out his intent if he had not been shot one night near Marie Roze's house. So ended an interesting drama which must have been decidedly unpleasant to the heroine.