The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891

The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 - An Illustrated Monthly

An Eighteenth Century Juliet. A Day With an East-end Photographer. The Notorious Miss Anstruther. The Guest of a Cannibal King. Old Stone Signs of London. Captain Jones of the "Rose." Child Workers in London. Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of Their Lives. Humours of the Post Office. Jenny. The State of the Law Courts. The Pastor's Daughter of Seiburg. Stories of the Victoria Cross: Told by Those Who Have Won It. The Enchanted Whistle. French judicial annals are rich in strange and romantic episodes, but there are few narratives so replete with pathetic interest as the story of Gabrielle de Launay, a lady whose cause was tried before the High Court of Paris about the middle of the eighteenth century, and created a profound sensation throughout France at that epoch. Mademoiselle de Launay was the only child of an eminent judge of Toulouse, where Gabrielle was born about the year 1730. M. de Launay, as the President of the Civil Tribunal of Toulouse, occupied a position of distinction, to which he was additionally entitled as a member of one of the leading families of the province. Between himself and the son of the late General de Serres, a deceased friend of the President de Launay, there existed an intimacy which gave colour to the belief entertained in the most exclusive social circles of Toulouse that young Captain Maurice de Serres was selected to be the future husband of the judge's beautiful daughter, then in her eighteenth year, whilst Maurice was nine years her senior. The birth and fortune of the two young people were equally in harmony, and the match thus appeared in every way suitable. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46452
Author: Various
Release Date: Jul 30, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Newnes, George, 1851-1910