REMARKABLE ADVENTURESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8610, 4 July 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

REMARKABLE ADVENTURESS.

The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent says :—A remarkable adventuress, named

Delphine Geyler, whose notoriety is of long date, and who practises her arts with varying success in Paris, London, and other European capitals, has been condemned at Pau to six months' imprisonment, the sentence being afterwards increased to two years by ordor of the Paris Court. This new Becky Sharp was born of respectable parents at Nantes in 1829, and received a good education in a convent at Algiers. After two years or so of wedded life in an African colony, she became impatient of domestic ties, and went ofF to Paris with a clever young fellow, who afterwards rose to be n noted statesman. About the year 1863 Geyler was wandering about Franco as a countess. She lived in great style, but came to grief at Lyons, whero she had her first experience of the dock, the prisoner having been condemned to one year's imprisonment for obtaining goods under false pretences. On her liberation, siio passed through various cities, from time to time acting us governess, music teacher, or dame da compaipiie, in which last capacity she i? said to have been employed for a while in London. A few years ago she came to Paris, where she obtained a considerable sum of money from tho vicar of a metropolitan parish, whose church she promised to get her husband to restore. Tho said husband was represented to tho estimable ecclesiastic as a wealthy English lord. Delphino Geyler was arrested lately at Lourdes, whero she was engaged in perpetrating frauds on several pious and opulent pilgrims to that celebrated shrine.