Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1839-11-07
MISCELLANY.
MISFORTUNE AND EXILE EMO.
BLEED.
AFFECTING ADVENTURE OF THE CELEBRA.
TED TALLEYRAND

In 1898, M. de Talleyrand was in Boston.
One day, whilst crossing the market place.
he was compelled to stop by row ofwagons.
all loaded with vegetables. The willy cour-
tier, generally so dead to emotion, could not
but look with kind Of pleasure at these wa
CONS and the little wagoners, who, by the
bye, were young and pretty country women.
Suddenly the vehicles came to a Stand. and
the eyes of M. de Talleyrand CHANGED to rest
upon one OF the young women who appeared
more lovely and graceful than the others. An
exclamation escaped from his lips-it attract
ed the attention of the fair one, whose country
dress and largehat bespoke daily visits to the
market, who, as she beheld the astonished
Ialieyrand, whom she recognised Immediate
ly, burst out laughing
"What, is it you % exclaimed she.
"les, indeed, it is l. But you-what are
you doing herel''
ST. said the young woman, sam waiting
for my turn to pass on.''
am going to sell my green's and
vegetables at the Market
AT the moment the wagons began to move
along-she of the straw hat applied the whip
to her horse, told VI. 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 rivettcd on the SPOT by
this strange apparition.
Who was this young market woman! Ma
dame la Countesse de la Tour-du-Pin, Made
molsselle de Eillou, the most elegant amonp
the Court of Louis the Sixteenth, King of
France, and whose moral and intellectual
worth had shone with so dazzling lustre in
the society of her numerous friends and admi-
rers. AT the time when the French nobility
emIgrated, she was young and lively, endow-
rl.ohl toll IL.
all the ladies who held rank at the court had
only time TO attend to such duties as be-
longed to her high, fashionable, and courtly
life.
Let any one fancy the sufferinos and apony
oil that woman, born in the lap ofwealth, and
who had breathed nothing but perfumes un-
der the gildcd ceilings of the Royal Palace OF
Versailles, when all at once she found herself
surrounded with blood and massacre, and saw
every kind of danger besetting her young and
beloved husband and herinfant child.
They succeeded in flying from France-It
was their good fortune to escape from the
bloody land where they were busy at the work
OF death. Alas In those times of terror, the
poor children themselves abandoned with
JOY, the parental roof,-for no hiding place
was secure against the vigilant eye of those
monsters who thirsted for innocent blood.
az America ana HIS
went to Boston, where they found retreat
But what change for the young, pretty, anc
fashionable young lady, spoiled from infanc,
by loud and continual praise Of he1 beauty ant
| talents
Mons. de la Tour-du-Pin was extravacant
| ly fond OF his wife. At the Court of Franc
ne had seen her, with the proud eye of a hus
band, the object of general admiration in
deed, her conduct had always been virtuou
and exemplary; but now, in foreign land
and among the unsophisticated republicans
| Q794) what was the use of courty refine
Inents! thorough knowledge Of ''La Boon
Fermier," of Paunentier, seemed to hin
quite preferable to arondeou of Clement O
''La Ccqtette" ofHermann.
Happy, as he was, in seeing her escap
from all the perils he had dreaded on her ow-
account, still he could not but deplore the fu
tCre lot Of the wife of his bosom. However
with the prudent foresight Of a good father an,