MADAME M'MAHON.
The following incident in the life of Madame M'Mahon is related:—ln the middle of the winter of 1838 a fire broke out in the female seminary at Limoges, France, and spread with such rapidity that it was feared all the inmates would perish, suddenly there was a cry that one little girl had been leit in her room. As the excited spectators were beginning to pray for the unfortunate child, a tall girl, with disheveled blonde, hair and flowing nightgown, cut through the crowd, and with a shriek of " I'll save her !" that rose above the sound of crackling timbers and falling masonry, dashed into the doorway. A loud hurrah that was prolonged to the echo only to be repeated again attracted the attention of the devotees, and the pale-faced girl was seen skipping through the flames with the terrified child. A few days thereafter King Louis Phillippe sent the heroine a gold medal for her brave/y, and a captain of the French army, who had witnessed the girl's pluck, begged an introduction. The captain is now President, of France and the braye girl Madame M'Mahon.
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Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1980, 16 October 1875, Page 4
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188MADAME M'MAHON. Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1980, 16 October 1875, Page 4
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