Emily Blount elopes with imposter, Mobile, AL 1858
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Emily Blount elopes with imposter, Mobile, AL 1858
 charbmoore3
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Posted: 23 Jul 2008 2:11PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Blount, Maury
From the Mobile, Alabama Newspaper, July 1858
From 1858:
"A correspondent, who has carefully looked over the French Army Register for 1855, writes to the Philadelphia Press, that there is no such name as de Riviere to be found in it. This certainly looks like a forlorn hope for the future prospects of the brilliant and fascinating Zouave."
Harnett Kane detailed the story in his book, "Gentlemen, Swords and Pistols."
Capt. de Riviere had presented himself earlier in 1858 as a French noble and military hero of the Crimean War. His adventures included a duel with one gentleman in New Orleans, and another in Mobile with Harry Maury, who shot him through the cheek. De Riviere recuperated in the Blount home, romancing Miss Emily Blount (and perhaps her mamma as well), then took his leave of the city, leaving behind considerable debt, as well, and taking Miss Emily along with him, with Colonel Blount, the papa, in hot pursuit.
Not my line, just sharing.
From 1858:
"A correspondent, who has carefully looked over the French Army Register for 1855, writes to the Philadelphia Press, that there is no such name as de Riviere to be found in it. This certainly looks like a forlorn hope for the future prospects of the brilliant and fascinating Zouave."
Harnett Kane detailed the story in his book, "Gentlemen, Swords and Pistols."
Capt. de Riviere had presented himself earlier in 1858 as a French noble and military hero of the Crimean War. His adventures included a duel with one gentleman in New Orleans, and another in Mobile with Harry Maury, who shot him through the cheek. De Riviere recuperated in the Blount home, romancing Miss Emily Blount (and perhaps her mamma as well), then took his leave of the city, leaving behind considerable debt, as well, and taking Miss Emily along with him, with Colonel Blount, the papa, in hot pursuit.
Not my line, just sharing.