Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-06-24
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TEE SAVOYARD.
AN INCIDENT FROM REAL LIFE,
Translated from The French Of p. Checalier. !

Every one in Paris remembers the brilliant mar
riage of MIR. Andrew !, who was one of the
richest bankers in the CLAUSE d. Antin--to Mile
de v, only daughter Of the Marquis de V,
formerly the ambassador and peer of France IL
was celebrated last winter, with great pomp, at the
chapel of the palace of Luxemburgh, and in the
magnificent hotel OF Mr. J. But every body
has not heard OF the strange and charming episode
that marked that aristocratic hymen which has py-
en- to The husband reputation for originality with
out an equal.
1t was the morning of the marriage The equi-
pages of Mr.. Andrew J. were waiting in the
courtyard; and he himself waited for his witness
es in saloon, gilded from top TO bottom, when a
valet pronounced the taitors Of Monsieur.
Ten taors entered, each carrying a large bun
die under his arm, and all, like Roman augurs,
could not look at each other without laughing.
These ten tailOrs brought fifty costumes of Sa-
voyard chimney sweepers, the size varying from
eight TO fourteen years, which they laid on the
splendid arm chairs of the saloon. Mr.. j ex-
amined, with the eye of connoissuer, this colec.
ton OF flannel wastcoats, of vests, and of small
Clothes, OF coarse kind of CLOTH declared himself
satisfied, and distributed two Thousand francs among
the taors, who retired in establishment
After the tailors came the hatters, with fifty
caps, then the shirlmakers, with fifty shirts, then
the wooden shoemakers, with fifty pair wooden
with fifty hurdy gurdys. All went away literally
paid. but each more amazed than the others. and
asked themselves whether it was bet or some
nlystification.
MIR. = then called his office boys to him, and
said to them =
$50 and scatter yourselves over all the quarters
OF Paris, and invite to dine with me ali the chin
ney-sweepers you meet. Promise louis to all
those who accept; and when you have fiftv, bring
them here. You will find, in my bath room, all
that will be necessary for the washing of them.
from head to foot This operation finished. YOU
will make them take these costumes, each fitting
his size; then they will put themselves at the ia
BILE IN this saloon whilst the other guests are din
ing in the next hall"
The boys retired, astonished, and repeated to
themselves the order, before they could assure
themselves that it was not dream, and went to
execute 1t, without being able To understand what
1t meant. 1t was one Of the severesl DAYS of win
ter hard frost had succeeded the fall of snow
pale sun shone on It's glazed front without melt
ing 1t. 1t was time to require fires in all the chin
neys. In a word, it was the true harvest time for
chimney sweepers.
The messengers of Mr. J had no trouble in
finding our Savoyards crying through the streets,
"From the bottom to the top from the bottom TO the
top! Sweep, sweep
The chimney, from the bottom TO the top ."
Others chanting on the roofs the ballads of the
kitchen, some chin ctous Others sweeping the
snow, and crying TO all who went by "A little
sous, my Colonel my General! my Emperor -
etc, until the little sous senced them. for no one
knows can practice better than the Savoyard the
art Of mportuning.
Figure TO yourself, then, the surprise of our
young rogues, when, instead of a sous thew were
promised louis the only condition of their com
ing to wedding feast. The good news ran from
chimney 10 chimney, like Geographic despatch
in less than two hours you could not find Savoy
ard in Maubert place, or Gueriu, Boisseu st. Ali
the chimneys which depended on them that day
were threatened by a great fire.
Having only the embarrassment of choice. the
messengers of the feast took the blacklist the dirt
est and the raggedest and when they entered the
beautiful hotel Of Mr. j., you would have said tina
the palace of Jupiter was carried by assault. by
Vulcan. The contrast was much more striking
when our little men met with line of eouipaUe.
which brought the nuptal train from Luxembur1h
On one side were the liyeries OF gold and silve,
the dresses of silk and velvet the lace and Jewels
the most excellent handles and the handsolnest Ia
dies of Paris; the other, the faces covered will
SCOT and smoke, the matted hair and tatterec
clothes, on half naked bodies.
The brilliant guests looked away, and aske,
themselves what this meant MIR. J. fixed ON III,
Savoyards melancholy look, and seemed 10 say I,
himself: els the happiness here or there2 1t il
here nc added, as he pressed his lips to the hant
Of his charming wife
And he introduced her as a Queen into her pal
ace, not without making signs to his servants Il
take care Of the chimney sweepers
An hour afterwards, stream as black az inl
crossed the court yard, on its way to the drain.
was from the washing OF the fifty Savovards, VIII
at the same moment came out Of the bath, as from
the caldron Of Eson, 50 much fairer and whittier, 3
much Plumper and fresher, that they truly seemed
to have changed their skin, and TO see for the frs
the air and sun. You would have said that a troor
OF tnghttul demons had been changed into Cherub
or Graces.
lights sprouting from gold and bronze. cansed n,