The gazette., 1799-04-22
Tnterefting Anecdotes,
RIL.tiOe 10 tbe Frencb PsVo!s:ion

By an unprejudced traveler-who 6nce the wear f7sa
has pafed ten years in France. and detained as >
national hofsge there
A VALET Il SanGon, es-eu.ioner ia chief,
having boahed that the perqulste OF dead men's
clothes was worth TO his mailer soo Lor's
d'ors per week an order ihued thereupon'
that in future, the dredes of thole who tell un'
der la GL4iVs d. II Loi,~ 1Aould be kept at the
difpoial Of government ,-ard 10 hard WINTER
Of 1904, fcveral priloners of both GaIe; beng
almoG naked, thefe wardrobes were opened TO
luPply them with covering. I
Citizen Beaumont was suillotircd Eor citizen
Chaum6nt ;--in vain he rePrei:ne3d ;he ni2-
axe, implorsd, and urged they 'aGltsd TIE
charge mutt have been intended againt
kiar that there was but little difference in he
feeling, Gill lels in the found, Of the two
names" So he was hurried away to cxscu-
tion'
Na-e dc NJ. young lady, aged 3,
bout eighteen, wa> impri,cned and pu; 10 death
naead of her elder iifter,t who hal besn DC
nouuced in popular lOciety. fox Counter 'evo-
lutionary feniiments.
The covered cart came one evening % . a
Force, for its uil2l complement Of victims, 20 b:
the Gulotine to complete the fare, they
obliged rrif5aer, who was rot actually on
the lit Of thofe required BY Fouquet, to go
off with the ret but on the her hand, on
the Sth Thermidor, at night, the driver tent
to the Luxembourg maintained that his cart
would hold no more than what had entered /;
and, after fome wrangled with the jail,r, OBJ
ltina,ely Auck BY bis relufh to admit one of
the number demanded, and who It0od ready at
the wicket. The poor fellow was therelorer re-
ferved to come hrG Of the next aA-rtment /;
Robelpierre went in bis place, and he now
keeps a reputable hop near the Pont neuf, at
Paris.
General and Madame Qre,ino, were young
couple, extremely attached 10 each other they
had one fon, about four years CID, who uled
daily to vifit, with her, the unhappy father con
fined at the Abbey Of St. German, upon Jac-
obin fufpicion. 1t was Ggnifcd, in March 1891,
by order of the Commit e. &c Surete Generate,
that all thoit ID cutoday were to be inaantly
put 81 Ecref5 The news Of t5eir fepara,ion
was 70 af1i4ing to this fond pair, that they
concerted various mealure5 70 accelerate The
Generals trial, knowing that M fubfantial
charge could be brought aGaina him. 1t oc-
Cured 10 the wife, that on foiicting HeheIt
Commonly called Pre- da ChsSs) in Whole com
pany the General had once found hirutelf
imPrloned, during fortnight, they might,
through his interpoftion, attain 70 reafonable a
requeit lhe therefore, (lnt lupPlicatory note,
Caw him by appointment, and received promncs
Of lervce. Some days after, RobciPierre gull
l7tined Pere du CbcUe,I at Whole houle, in a
lcrutoire, among lage mafs cF papers, ap.
Peared Madame Quctno's note aud, il CON
iequence thereof, fac and her huiblnd were ar
| raisned as his accomPlioes, and condemned 10
death. The General was forthwith executed,
the fame Judgment Paded on The lady; the
inA,aing OF it was, however protraaed, and tAe
ihowed al advanced rate Of pregnancy ere
three days el2pled, ihe was delivered in piilon
Of a dead chlld-tke pan6s Of labour fc4rcc
over, came two GesdarmsJ, with a TamBrsau, e
and dragged her out of bed TO undergo the
lentence. PerceiviIg, as fhe dreGed here,f,
that fhe had fine long hazle tredes, which tell
as low as her wait, each trooper leized on lhem,
at once, as his fpoil, and kept tearing different
ways, till her cries and their qusrreIs brought
up a turnkey, who fettled The dilpute, By cut
ting the hair in two parts, and equally dividing
it between the combatants. Madame QuetnO
was then conveyed to the guillotine, but ieemed
totally deprived Of her lenfes, and almoR mo-
tionlefs. She was delightful, and very &C.
cOmplilhed Perlon.
H. E,o~g :.