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The Female Warrior.*They buried in Paris, lately, a woman whoise maiden name was Thereso Fig-ncur: she was the widow of a man namedSutter. She was born the 14th January, 1774, in the village of Talmy. near Dijon, and was nearly 87 years old when she died. She lived at the Hospice des Men-ugcs on a pension of $40 per annum, given her the 16th September, 1800, for her excellent military services, and the present government gave her a small additional pension. Therese Figneur was an old dragoon of the Fifteenth, and of other regiments, and from 1793 to 1812 she had taken her share in all the campaigns of the republic and the empire. She was nicknamed ^Sans Gene. When the Committee of Public Safety decreed that henceforward no woman should serve in the army, the field officers of the army of the Eastern Pyrenese petitioned that an exception might be made in favor ot La Citoyenne Figneur alias Sans Gene,and the petition was granted in the most flattering manner. She commenced hermilitary career in 1793, against the English at the siege of Toulon. Here she became acquainted with Commandant Bonaparte, who put her under arrest once for a delay of five-nnd-lwenty minutes in the execution of an order. Some year* afterwards, when the ex-commandant of artillery was first consul, he expressed a wish to see the dragoon of Sans Gene. Den on, of Egyptian and antiquarian fame, carried her to St. Cloud, where she was presented to Mme. Josephine Buonaparteand Md’llc Hortenso JJcauhaiQais, (the
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Charlottesville Christian Intelligencer
Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 21, 1861
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