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The
STRAND MAGAZINE
An Illustrated Monthly
EDITED BY
GEO. NEWNES
Vol. I
JANUARY TO JUNE
London:
BURLEIGH STREET, STRAND
1891
Table of Contents Added by Transcriber
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.
Frenchjudicialannals arerich instrangeand romanticepisodes, but there arefew narratives so repletewith pathetic interestas the story of Gabriellede Launay, a ladywhose cause was triedbefore the High Court of Paris about themiddle of the eighteenth century, andcreated a profound sensation throughoutFrance at that epoch.
Mademoiselle de Launay was the onlychild of an eminent judge of Toulouse,where Gabrielle was born about the year1730. M. de Launay, as the President ofthe Civil Tribunal of Toulouse, occupied aposition of distinction, to which he wasadditionally entitled as a member of one ofthe leading families of the province. Betweenhimself and the son of the lateGeneral de Serres, a deceased friend of thePresident de Launay, there existed an