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The Barre Daily Times
Barre, Washington County, Vermont
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Countess de Bois Lusy, formerly Julia Batchelder of Chicago, arrived in New York on the French liner France after three years in Paris, where she married and divorced a Frenchman. She prefers American husbands to French ones and plans to stay in the U.S. without remarrying.
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Countess (Once of Chicago) Has Tried Both and Calls Frenchman Inferior.
New York, Oct. 28.—The Countess de Bois Lusy, who was Mrs. Julia Batchelder, of Chicago, arrived here on board the France, of the French line, and said she had been in Paris for three years, which was "long enough to get married and get a divorce," as she put it. The countess has lived abroad for five years.
When asked her opinion of French husbands as compared to Americans, she said:
"There is no comparison. The French man is very nice in public, but he acts differently in his home. In discussing the subject I am reminded of Mark Twain's daughter, who once said, 'Pa is very funny when we have company.' It is the same with the Frenchman when he 'has company.'
"The Frenchman's wife is apt to lose ground. She would not live with him if she possessed the independence of the American woman. The French wife is not assertive, and that accounts in a measure for the few divorces sought in France. American wives would not tolerate for a moment the things that French wives are supposed to endure.
Here we lose no time in taking our troubles to court if we know we have been mistreated. I have had all the Frenchmen I care for. In the future Americans will do for me.
"I do not believe I will ever go back to the other side again. I have had my lesson, and I am going to profit by it. In the future I am going to remain at home and I do not believe I will ever marry again."
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New York
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Oct. 28.
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marriage and divorce in paris; prefers american husbands; plans to stay in u.s. and not remarry.
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The Countess de Bois Lusy arrived in New York on the France after three years in Paris, during which she married and divorced a Frenchman. She criticizes French husbands for being different at home versus in public, contrasting them with American men, and states American wives are more assertive and quick to seek divorce when mistreated.