The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-27


BERANGER NOT AlARRIED-The French JOUR-
nails have made themselves very busy, flate with
marrying Reranger the poet A paper OF the "a OF
June, says:
Beringer, the iIIustrous song.wrer, is mar
red. lie has espoused NIademosee Judith, his
servant, who for long time has been the mistress
of his house"
A few days after, the same paper contained the
following paragraph - friend of Beangers
family on the maternal side, has informed us that
BeraRger did not marry his servant. Mademoiselle
Judith, now Madame Beranger, was a washer
woman living in the Rue Cadet she brought him,
tor dowry, eight hundred francs income. In this
last particular our poet has been more fortunate
than the poet Dulresny, who espoused only the
lists OF washing carefully kept by his washerwo-
man Progress Is abroad. On the other hand
journal OF Yesterday announces that it has, from
certain authorlly, the assurance that Beranger Is
not married at all What to do in the case of this
contradictory atfiTmation2 Had we not better say
with a certain philosopher III YOU are married,
you have done very well if You have remained
bachelor, you have still done very we'll !"
The e Corsair" newspaper finally brings Beran-
ger himself upon the stage, Publishing the following
letter which he addressed 10 the Editor who first
mentioned the matter:
Iou assure the public that am recently mar
ried that ! have married my servant and that all
the inhabitants of the suburb of Passy were the
happy witnesses of the ceremony.
Among all the false announcements which en-
rich our newspapers, there is none which has more
surprised me than this. II the article, however, had
concerned no one but myself | should have let it
run unconTadicted- at Passy, which village
is very unconscious ofhe happiness it has had from
this marriage IN GrireHlS
But it is necessary that yOu should know, mon
sieUr, that the person whom your colleague desig
mates MY servant, and whose name he gives, thus
adding to the probability Of the story is a friend of
my earliest youth, to whom am under grateful OBJ
legations More favored than myself by fortune,
she, fifty years ago, rendered me kindness in the
way of money. TO be again serviceable TO me,
now that both touch upon our sixties, she has
consented to take charge of my humble home, in
which watch over the declining years of an aunt
Of my own, whose health IS very miirm.
g As old friends who have never lost sight of each
other, we had little idea that our one hundred and
sixteen years brought together under the same roof.
would furnish material for the malice Of journalists
and the kind old maid all modest she is, was far
from anticipating, that in establishing around me
an economy Of household necessary TO both of us,
she should he taken for n servant, mistake which,
after all. would wound neither her democratic sem
tmcnis nor mine.
" MY profession as poet condemns me 10 publ
city hut believe it 10 he my duty TO make known
to your readers, that my old friend has always had
too much good sense TO wish to become the wife Of
poor simpeton who puts his happiness in songs.
and who has delivered over his life and lis privacy
TO the discretion Of newspapers