The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-08-07
From me Dublin Uniperaty Magas'rs.
THE LIVRE NOIR OF PARIS.


ter himself or his deputy in whose charge !
is, lies massive and padlocked volume, whose
contents, if known, would thrill the blood and
pale the cheek Of even the most pampered
yotary OF romances. What would be all the
horrors of Balsic, or Victor Hugo, or Hofi-
mann, or Maiurin, when compared with the
narratives writ upon these pages What all
the highly wrought and much labored sto-
rres which human talent or genius has ever
devised and planned, when placed beside the
short and stunning annals Of crime and mise
ry, vice, misfortune, and condemnation that
dreadful book could lay bare
The Liyre Noir is the registry Of the lives
OF criminals from the cradle 10 the grave
from the child conceived in sin to the suicide
taken in the "fettes de st. Cloud" or ex-
posed upon the table at la Morgue. His
every incident is there-from his first step
in iniquity to his second--from his early chas-
tsement to the severer punishment the
trining offence TO the graver crime, all is re-
gistered; and his foot track can be traced as
he went on from the penitentiary to the pri-
son-from the prison TO the gallies--from the
gallies to the guillotine; or suppose repen-
lance to have seized him, and he resolved 10
siti uo more 1t natteTS uOt
The deed which perhaps rashness or po-
verty suggested, is stamped indelibly upon the
memorable page and the brand upon his brow
bears no more damning evidence Of his crime
than four brief lines Of pen. Conceive, if
you can, any thing more horrible than this.
Fiction cannot ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cam
not exceed il; and yet in the city, where it
is boosted civilization holds paramount sway,
this still exists But the mischief ends not
here. All are inscribed herein-natives,
strangers, the sojourner for a week, the passer
through for day--their every action, their
intentions, their plans. Walk, if you will,
with a port erect and bosom high, proud in
your personal liberty but not a stir you give,
not whisper you breathe, but is noted and
chronicled here, to be referred to and brought
forward whenever suspicion may attach 70
you. Then is the page turnt to--the finger
points 10 the passage, and your condemna-
ton follows. The peace, the fortune, the
honor OF the first houses in France are de-
pendent upon the secrecy Of these PAGES
to open 1t were to spread civil war through
the land
Let us draw from the store Of one OF the
cleyerest tale writers Of the day some Of the
extracts by which he illustrates this terrific
volume, which will convey clearer notion OF
it than any description, however labored:
La Comp,essa D'Abeille, in every socie-
ty; deep in the Greek loan, and several COM
panies Of insurance /; has issued six hundred
thousand francs of false money protected
by Prince S.
Madame Antoine de Vieux Preal-goes
every year to the waters Of Barege with her
conlessor and her doctor; madame in perfect
health; is in league with Spain; her confess
sor is gend'arme Of King Ferdinand, her
doctor monk.
Marquis de Andelaure-wel received at
court spirited, clever, and agreeable; spy
ofthe Emperor of Russia; spared because he
is more useful than otherwise; all his letters
from Russia opened before they reach him.
"Aygimaine, chief Of an emigre club who
pass all their evenings since '92 in devising
: internal machines : they are twenty-eight
in number, Of whom fourteen are agents of
the police not worth the cost of superinten-
dence
Beigh, foreigner, who counterfeits per-
fectly the air, look, and attitude Of Napoleon
he affects to have made his escape from st.
Helena, and is now organizing conspiracy
among the students, he derives his means
from the police; but, as being stranger, he
requires watching the duty is performed by
a false Dauphine, whom he watches in his
turn; thus the two aspirants for the crown
are mutual spies on each other.
" Camille, reduced at sixteen Maquise at
eighteen; at twenty died at the Bicetre.
Ca,harine, surnamed the pretty armed,
seduced al twelve; crowned the rosiere' at
fifteen died at Poisy at twenty-five, in the
Maisen de force
Celeste-(the drude)-sold by her mo-
Their to an Englishman; changed afterwards
for an Irish horse; now dame de Compagnie
at Frescati, and baronne.
"Carl Bae, the printer Of Les Gueux'-
his press concealed in arch Of the Pont de
Jena; the papers in pump at the Isle de
now printing song against M.
Mole, written by the project Of the police;
wait till time, and then condemn him to the
Bagnes de Brest.'
. Such is the LIvRE Nom" Of the French
capital Long may it be the only city where
such record is found.
LOOK WHERE YoU'RE ooING.'-You
men, if you intend to get married; if you
hink your happiness will be increased and
your interest advanced by matrimony, be sure
and look where you're going Join your
self in union with no woman who is selfish,
Tor she will sacrifice you--wi,h no one who
is tickle, for she will become estranged-
have naught to do with a proud one, for she
will despise you-nor with an extravagant
one, for she will ruin you. Leave coquette
to the fools that hutter around her-let her
own fireside accommodate a scold, and flee
from woman vino loves scandal as you
would from the evil one. Look where you
re going will sum it all up
Young ladies, when you are surrounded by
dashing men--when the tones Of love and
the words Of compliment Of the whirling