[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.]
"GABRIELLE JOINED HER PRAYERS TO HER LOVER'S."
(An Eighteenth Century Juliet.)
[An Eighteenth Century Juliet.]
By James Mortimer.
I.
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.