Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-08-24
Misfortune and exile ennobIed.

Affecting adventure Of the celebrated TaH,yra7ld
In 1893, NJ. de Taileyrand was in
Boston. One day, whilst crossing the
market place, he was compelled to stop
by a large row of wagons. all loaded
| with vegetables. The willy courier,
generally so dead 10 emotion, could not
bur look with a kind Of pleasure at these
wagons, and the little wagoners, who. by
the by, were young and pretty country
women. Suddenly the vehicles came TO
a stand, and the eyes of NJ. de TalIcv-
rand CHANGED to rest upon one of the
young women who appeared more love
ly and graceful than the others. An ex-
clamation escaped from his lips-ii at
tracted the attention of the fair one,
whose country dress and large hat he
spoke daily visits 70 the market, as she
bched the astoniShed Talley rand, whom
she recognized Immediately, burs. out
laughing.
Wv hat! is it your exclaimed she.
'Yes, indeed, it is |. But you, what
are you doing here?"
81" said the young woman, Il am
waiting for my turn to pass on.
| am going to sell
my green's and vegetables at the market.
AT that moment the wagons began to
move along, she of the straw hat APP
piled the whip 10 her horse. told NJ. de
Talleyrand the name of the village
where she was living, requested him
earnestly TO come and see her, disappear
ed. and left him as if rivefted on the spot
by this strange apparition.
Who was this young market womanl
Madame la ComteSse de la Tour-du-Pin.
(NadamoiSeIle de Eillon*) the most ele-
GAM among The ladies OF The Court of
Louis the Sixteenth, King of France,
and whose moral and intellectual worth
had shone so dazzling a lustre in the So
ciety Of her numerous friends and admit
rers. At the time when the French no.
biity emigrated, she was Young and
lively, endowed with the most remark
able talents, and, like all the ladies who
held a rank al the court, had only time
to attend to such duties as belonged 10
her high, fashionable, and courtly life.
Let any one fancy the sulferings and
agony Of that woman, born in the lap of
wealth. and who had breathed nothing
but perfumes under the gilded ceilings Of
the Royal Palace of Versailles, when all
at once she found herself surrounded
with hood and massacres, and saw every
kind Of danger besetting her young and
beloved husband and her infant child
They succeeded in flying from France.
II was their good fortune 10 escape from
the bloody land where they were busy
at the work of death. Alas. in those
times of terror, the poor children them
selves abandoned with joy, the parental
roof. for no hiding place was secure a
gainst the vigilant eye of those monsters
who thirsted for innocent blood.
The fugitives landed in America. and
Fl rsl went TO Boston, where they found
retreat. But what a change for the
Young, pretty. and fashionable lady,
spoiled from infancy by loud and contin-
ual praise of her beauty and talents.
Mons. de la Tour-du Pin was exfrava-
gantlv fond OF his wife. At the Court of
France n had seen her. with the proud
eve of a husband. the object of general
admiration; indeed, her conduci had al
ways been virtuons and exemplary;
but now, in a foreign land, and among
the unsophisticated republicans. IFe4}l
what was the use OF courtly reflnemenfs?
thorough knowledge of La Boone
Fermier,. of Parmentier, seemed 10 him
quite preferable TO a roBdeau OF Gle
menii; or La Coquette' OF Hermann.
Happy, as he was, in seeing her es-
cape from all the perils he had dreaded
on her own account, still he could not
but deplore the future Iot Of The wife Of
his bosom. However, with the prudent
foresight of good father and kind hns-1
hand, he nerved himself against despair.
and exerted himself to render their con-
difIon less miserable than that OF many
emigrants who were starving when the
little money they had brought over with