A TERRIBLE REVENGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6930, 2 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

A TERRIBLE REVENGE.

Immediately below Pari3 there is a large i island in the Seine which extends from the Point de Courbevoie to Suresnes, and which is not IeBB than a mile long.. It is now known os the He de Rothschild, because it belongs to that wealthy Jewish banker. This island was in the latter part of the last century the scene of an act of marital vengeance, whose hero died only a month or two ago at the age of 109 years. His name was Yves Coriedie and he was the last survivor of the war of the Vendee, as well as of the bands of brigands who were the terror of France during the Directory. This veteran was born in 1774, and after having fought bravely under Cathelieu for the royal cause against the republicans, retired to Brest at the end of the war and married a cousin who had a small fortune, and there he opened a small grocer shop. One night his wife eloped with the contents of the till and a. gendarme. Yves determined to find the fugitives and followed their trace on foot a3 far as Cbartres, where, under the pretence of starvation, he enrolled himself in a band of brigands, who, during several years, carried on a successful campaign in the environs of that city. The chief was at last captured and guillotined, and then the band dispersed. Yves, who had not forgotten his revenge, had now a snug little capital saved up from his share in the plunder of the band. Accompanied by two comrades, he again began a search for his faithless wife, and at last succeeded in tracing her and her lover, who had gone into the milling business on what is now the lie de Rothschild. Yves and his two accomplices succeeded in surprising the exgendarme and his wife, and having stripped them naked and fastened them down to the floor, they filled the room with straw, which they set on fire and then went away and left the couple to their fate. After having satisfied hie vengeance in this horrible manner, Yvea Coriedie succeeded in escaping to Belgium, thence to England, where he made a moderate fortune. After the Reiteration he returned to France and settled down in "Vannes. It was only through a manuscript entitled " History of My Life," which he left to his heirs, that the facts which are here related became known.