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98 SOCIETY IN ALGIERS.
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and in other public positions , have been condemned as swindlers , forgersand for other crimes .
, We remember that we had at Algiers for ten years an Inspector of Police who always wore at his button-hole a very large ribbon
, twice as large as is usually worn hy the members of the Legion _d'Honneur . He was held in great esteem by the authorities ; but
at length it was found out that he had no right to the red ribbon . He was triedand with many other false bearers of the decoration
was condemned , to two years' imprisonment . But the most remark- _^ able instance of the assumption of a false title which we have come
across in all our experience is the story of the false Marquis of St . Amand . In 1840 , the Marquis of St . Amand was introduced to our
mess-room , and well received by our society , many of whom were distinguished and learned menand others occupied very high
very , positions in the army and in the civil administrations . He "was about thirty years old . His frank and open mannershis
gentle-, manly appearance , his intelligence , and his witty conversation , soon gained our confidence and friendship . He had just been appointed
clerk to the Treasury at Algiers . When asked why he came to the colony , he answered , that two years before he was a resident at ,
near Auxerre ; that a gentleman named the Baron "V . had asked his sister in marriageand being refusedhe out of revenge bribed her
waiting-maid , and , by this means one , night entered the room where the young lady -was sleeping . The fright which this cowardly
outrage caused her brought on a disease of the brain , of which she soon after died . The Marquis of St . Amand challenged the Baronand
, in a duel received a sabre cut which disabled him ; he then resolved to take his revenge or die . He assured us that every day he had
practised pistol-shooting until he became very skilful , * he then again challenged the Baron , and had the satisfaction of killing the murderer
of his sister . To avoid prosecution , he said , he had taken refuge in Aliers he added" I have given my name to the Minister of
Jusremain tice g , but in ; it Al is agreed _-eria , for th several at I shall not . " be And prosecuted as about if this I consent time we to . gyears
saw in the public journals an account of the duel between the Marquis of St . A . and the Baron V . we made no doubt that this
interesting young man was he of whom , the newspapers had spoken , and what he himself pretended to be . He was very open about
his affairs , and often showed his friends letters which he had received from the family of St . A . With one of his aunts , whom
lie loved very much , he kept up a continual interchange of letters ; lie had also several correspondents among _deputesand persons
, high in office about the court . In 1842 , by his influence , combined with his good conduct , his intelligence , and his assiduity in his
work , he was appointed to be Treasurer at Medea ; here , as at ment Algiers and , he army made , and the won acquaintance all hearts of by all his the p officers leasant of m the anners Govern and
his willingness to serve his friends .
98 Society In Algiers.
98 SOCIETY IN _ALGIERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/26/
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