ABSTRACT
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.—Another lady, Mdme. de St. Julien, Superior of the Filles de la Charité de St. Vincent de Paul, and Superior of the Military Hospital of Marseilles, has been raised to this rank. Mdme. de St. Julien has served in hospitals for thirty years, and devoted herself to cholera patients in 1865 and during the recent epidemic. A gold medal has been granted by the Government for the same reason to Mme. Maignon (Sœur Stephanie), who belongs to the same hospital. There are at present seventeen women in France who have received the distinction of the Order of the Legion of Honour, of whom Mdme. St. Julien is the last. The Order is mostly given for devotion to the sick and wounded; Lady Pigott, for instance, besides several French women, has received the order as a reward for her services to the wounded in the Franco-German war. But the name of Rosa Bonheur, artiste-peintre, is also in the list, and we are told that Mdme. Abicot was decorated for defending the house of the maire of Oison, her husband, against " armed men," and that Mdme. Begis, who is the first 536decorated Frenchwoman, earned her distinction in 1849 for "resisting the mob."
