Downstream

attempt, Kellerman then set
off for France where in
September the same year she
competed against seventeen
men racing down the Seine,
finishing joint third with
Burgess, and watched by half
a million spectators. She also
beat the Austrian swimmer
‘Baroness Isa Cescu’ in a
twenty-two-mile Danube
River Race from Tulln to
Vienna. This was presumably
Madame Walburga von