1847: Mlle Lola Montes, Mistress of a King

"This woman (a Spanish dancer) is the one that has bewitched the King of Bavaria, who is sixty years old and a considerable poet. In a recent sonnet, the King compares himself to a high mountain, covered with snow, and the lady to the sun that has melted the frost from its top. She was  born at Seville, and after perfecting herself as a dancer, started forth in quest of adventures. At Berlin she horse-whipped a gendarme who endeavored to keep her from riding before the king at a review at Warsaw. She dared the Mayor to a duel from the stage. At Paris she was the cause of an affair of honor, in which a talented educator, Dujarrier, was shot; after the running the flower of the aristocracy of these three cities, she left for Munich. There she cut up such capers that, on the 16th of Feb the people began to gather around her hotel, threatening to burn her for having bewitched the king. So great was the excitement, that the commandant of a garrison sent a regiment of dragoons to escort her from the city to one of the king's country seats, where he followed her the next morning. It would not be strange if his majesty's love should lose him a crown."

~From The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), August 7, 1847