Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-05
FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.

FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.
aome -. manners Of The middle classes in and about
a'is peo'e she revolution curiouslv exenoeJ IN ma
per IN the June blackwood L<bru.s L,rs,w " : r.
LEBHus, a lyric poet of mean ,ecc,v, .a Il: ;c.
VINO had left his bed and board" for resi,ns ~ -
gal nes and the law proceedings memoirs which ~ II,
brought forth develop interior life at all treated &c i ~
memoirs Of the Dukes, and Duchesses and Counsa d
other nobles--of which thers is no lack - ''''
Leorn ceiebied poet as ne was only private secre
ay 20 ne rnncc OF CONT at salary of about $780, His
aher was an ancient vas Of the house, and the talents Of
he son caused him to be received and provided for near the
person of the Prince. -
In 1850 he married. and for fourteen wears of his life po
eses to have enjoyed entire happiness Ii was love match
nnu his wife was like himself poet But discord came al
100. - the shape Of M GRIMoD bcollector of taxes at
sunny under SooO And here is that the moral Of the pc
per Lakewood begins show itself These sucollecors
were ne Instruments Of the Farmers General of France who
nom an oppressed and nsuted peasantry the last far
T y nelous taxation, and thus prepared the way and the
mouves lot vlndctvc revolution.
N. Grimod had country h,ss. !, ,.h;.h L. ..-..:-s
ue 'epuh WIN hawking, fishing, rowing in eondolas tn
veses OF ancient NEUROLOGICAL legends In which Love the
aces Dsna Daccnus and the Bacchantes figured in COS
rune ne detas OF al which related with great glee in
letters published among the law papersl from Ma eh
to her husband, who all the while occupied n Iv
and executing the duties Of his station the Prince On
this head Blackwood thus remarks
"Grimod pnclbeck imitation Of the lords and ,d;
who waltzng, flirting acting proverbs and writing -
very when the first gea shpro os
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her foundation, and the clouds gathering that were to fall
down the blood and horror Of the revolutions sbcollec-
tor OF taxes in his country house, with his friends wives about
him, in addition to his giving parties the most gorge
magnifcence splendid IN honor Of bthday, like
Comus at Ludlow Castle bd-huntings, where ladies with
endan squres sailed forth in anc array silk
nets TO catch the prey after having wled them from the
by binding them with polished mirrors horns sounding
and music stationed in woody dels and all carried with
grandeur like the cayacades of the Duke and Duchess Don
Qaroea ub-colector of doing all these things shows
very clearly that some change other needed"
of
collector in the affections Of Mde Le5run for her poet
spouse which, when hmse all unsuspcious) he through the
fundamentally of the kind friends who wanting
such OCCASIONS made perceive he in the potes
imaginable, forbade his house M. Grmod The note,
model its kind, is subjoined:
q This 18th june IVA.
1here are thousand circumstances SIR which every ay
make mans duty longer the persons who have
been most highly priced experience this nysfin declining
valued You know better than any else how much lose
by this STEP Mde Lebrun unes her regrets mine, and
thanks
81 have the honor to be- with perfect truth and for the last
time, &c. &C."
| The reply not less polite
We do know says the gay and innocent Lothario,
the motives for sudden quarrel you pleased with
society, less with yours The number OF
we lose in you and Mde Lebrun, whom beg you will
express our regret +"
But Mde Lebrun, although made aectionately join in
the letter forbdding the house to M Gmod, had no notion
caprice the part of her husband She her MOTHER and her
husbands sister, mddeagcd spnste all joined in repro
batting the brutality Of such treatment of tepder wife, But
the Partisan Pndar remaining memorable, Mde Lelrun
fine morning packed all her vauabes and all her husbands
that she could and in three hackney coaches removed
herself and her spois from the conjuga residence plea
SAINT specimen, the story of wife Of the middle class
in l774-a duchess could scarcely be sublime
nconsolabe ke Caypso for the loss Of his love, M.
Lebrun instituted proceedings court after court the pur-
pose Of rcgainng his wewhom he STILL the Plesdings
record, tendery loved and believed entirely innocent In
vain The just defeated the courts refused de-
TO the unhappy husband the restitution Of his w
and thenceioh Mde Lebrun and NJ Grmod could mzsquer
ade or hunt together in gondoas, mpe
inent supervision Of = loving spouse.
Time rolled on, and with it the fearful cloud of revolution
few pages further the changes The Of St Louis
had laid his head the block The golden locks OF the proud
daughter Of Austria deed with dust and blood and the
exSecretay of the Prince Of CONT the Pinda the Courts
Of Louis XIV and Louis XVI had become poet laureate
the revolutionary guone, and had apartments assigned to
him at the national cost in the Louvre His was the duty TO
celebrate in poetry the wholesale and God deng murders of
the day In the natural Grmod collector Of taxes,
must be an aristocrat Here is the final picture
When Grimod brought before the Convention, woman,
crimes any, little known he the point of
being dismissed for of Pina in his red
Heeon sIowed like molten lead h his vndcye heart when
he looked the miserable pair. What shall
upon the person called Gmod eevant subcoectoro Of
and the beside him. who has aided and abeted
him in several attempts from the censorship of the
Committee OF Public Safety ," The accused looked tmidy
round in hopes that would be returned this
routine inquiry, in which their safety would be insured
but red-eapped Pindar struck his hands hurredy the
chords and cried the shr sharp that both
remembered too WE'LL Ia mort! Ia mort and in ten
minutes their bodies lying headess side by side"
Coon ADvicE.-Chancellor KENT, in acknowledging the
receipt Of work Medicine thus ntmates his opinion
Of what is necessary to health r
"He has dipped into it very specifically, but has read
Il
Of science Of which Mr. X Processes be very ignorant
and speaks Of with great ddence He Of that class