New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-07
AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN PARIS. No. XVII
BREAKFAST AT RAABOUfLLEr.

Ne have left you in the salon OF the lUpa farm house OF
RsDbouBlei Did yoa look out on aide a. the phesS
snts in tbe park and the other the bees in their n
hsbs,ion Did you notice how the windows opened IN
The center hhe folding doors ard how the light was soft
ered by email white curtains hung ciose to the sss ana
how the whole window recess drsped with snorc.d
<sed musni Tho Baroness begged you to di-trus' he
dsnpnes Of your dresses and sit BY the hre DIG you
prefer 10 bok u the pictures and tho kn'ck knsc<' al
sbcsi the roon and you startled It the "Pen"eoce
Of the people Who stared at you from the mirrors ine
Quaker vad 1T takes two to make stare nov ie' as
hook Il the parchment the Baron spoke o. mas 's"i
w Signature, and reads thus
ere n Known that the Baron D., Lieutenan: Gen
.i; ~ srmies of Frspce IL member Of the Society
Of the Cncnnaf instituted by the officers OF the American
srmy at the period Of Ire dissolution az Wen 70 CON
smorpte the great event which gaze Independence TO
Gorb America for the laudsbe purpose OF ncaicsng
he duty Of having down 10 peace arms assumed Tor Puoe
debse and Of uniting in acts Of erothery Hecon ana
bonds OF perpetual friendship the members constituting
the fsue In testimony whereof the President OF the
aid Society have here INTO set hand at Mount vernon
n tbf STATE Of Virginia. this 10th day OF December in
H. xesy 81 our Lord one thous and hundred and
eighty Eve Ia the tenth year Of the Independence Of the
United STATES aSEo WASHINGTON, President,
We may look ii the portrait of tbs Baron D, the
father Of host who at fourteen years OF age instead Of
Latin and Greek al the Sorbonne, preferred joining tbs
forces Of La Fsytte for America He served yeas
10 France and perhaps assisted sowing tina. seed which
sprupa upward and bore such bitter fruit for tbs King who
lad .eaa cd
lie badge hung with blae ribbon on bis breast repre-
cents the cypber Of the Society Of the Cincinnati We
cav sone private letters OF La Fsye,e and written dur
ing his vsi. America in 1875 The present Baron inner
Is The tie If bis fathers membership with The motto,
~Omnsm reL qus. rempubcam" IL would be REASONABLE
&c iIarsl ate this literally Of the present time.
Breakfast was announced at pas, twelve. This is
called the second breakfast coffee chocolate are taken
ssr,y in the morning laid of my b.nnst and cloak in
the ching room The Baroness offered me cap, fearing
should feel the cold after wearing bonnet all the
morning.
Ibaye conscientious scupes about tat ing the private
hospiaes one may hsve the good luck to receive among
strapger So If you will pardon On Infringement on the
uIiies Of tine and place, viii introduce fiction a. this
eseh Of my DsTadon and tell you that We bteakfssed
With tps in the Doron Of Vincenner, and all the truth
mean 10 utter IL tina, found their society fascnsog
end the breakfast delicious and satisfying 70 our tangible
selves and that cheafulnss bounty and grace vslsd
each obtr in serving First they sent US fresh boiled
eggs hid N a nspkin and put them in ivory egg cups
and ate them with little spoon from the sheL Then we
lad btefneak walled around with Triangular spherOids OF
bot fried potatoes AID spnsled with green bits OF savoy
bebs We had Kind Of red wine, then snoher then
black sauseces and white then kidneys cooked ia
Nsdir then dessert Of apples pears cheese preserves
and cal0 then sferward coffee and toast We took the
coffee in bowls with abundance of hot milk.
BIZ skfs.s have an end We reluctant to say adieu
10 this auIsble family. We were allied to them by love
and gratitude Their father had fought for AID aested
our victories ard they well glored in repub
lie We hoped them side of the Atlantic and
afured them that the signature Of Washington would be
passport to the homo OF every Amer can patriot
Our boused chsrioeer and his steed had reoced too in
impers, bospsles and awaited Us at the door We we've
packed the shaws uciedn aud departed Madame said
Eau revoir and turned back again to her voice calling
The dog-Amour Amour, who seemed intent to follow
Amour wac the last cadence Of our visit Amour Ike
music Numbering its sriDgs breathed TRANQUILITY in our
hearts.
w. repssed the chateau-n one of lis turre.s Francis
had slept and this gallant monarch and his levee the
luscious Diana Of Poctier and Henry the King her mad
lover Catherine de Medicis and the demonac Charles IN
Rubelais end Voure Louis XIV and his Court and his
Queen Madame Maintenon Marie Antoinette and her
dairy maids and sbephldetses Charles and his abdca
ticn End the Persian populace Of 1880; Vrgls Eysum
and Dants Internal Circes-hand in hand reeed thsi,
may associations around this old chateau. The voices
Of the past mingled in hooking music, dead marches
and bscchanal soDgsand blended in awful chorus walls Of
wo and notes Of delrious ecsacy The ripping laugh Of
voupuous ovethe out cry of blood Of St Bartholomew
q
Icy sense Of MsiDnonbe ecboDg footsteps Of the Aus
titan on the scsod and the tripping gayey Of the god
dess queen and her syphsthe trembling agony Of abdica
ton and the threats and ca ira of Partisan mob-ht
long dmpuendo and dying away in neglect and forget
fulness Then the clarion tones Of the new Empire.
Such are the harmones and discords Of the ovetures
these old French palaces What holocaust, Of human OK
ptrtnce have been offered at their shrnes Death rs tn
biph priest at their asr the sybe his crozier kings
berots his dsacoBs and memory is all the incense offered
what is Ire Think Of the joke the fercest fame BIZ
lends In smeke!'
We glimpsed through the long avenues Of the forest
Prtss your eye balls and you will recall visions Of ga
hun,en-cbssipg hounds and bounding game-but w
must br ak these bands ohe enchanted past and hver int
The reality Of misty dzzy February afternoon aud jog
Jog slspg macsdamised rosd-up hill and down hill tn
ZANE mmutsbe Jog Clouds drsggled their ragged skirt
along the plain leaving the top Of the stark pop
lais trimmed to the hight Of fifty sixty feet for fire
wood Rows Of bumped back messy gnarled looking apple
trees we've posed in perpetual courtesy along the waysde
Their ugintss raher than their virtue is their protection
lne from .nec to law their fruit is safely yielded to i,
proper owner
For some distance the ieds were without hedges 10
closures and evidently belonged to large proprietor
PuIoued surface drains conducted little moisture to tn
bitches by the wsysde pows attached to wheels Ink
trains artillery, drawn by Tr nlookng horses turne'
the turf The horses wear high coiars covered with Blu
shsgey Goth We saw Of the kind at the farm
house which We were told weighed nearly hundre
pounds. and ao another part Of the harness for the bsc
of the here, Of about the same weight
Thee fashions might have been introduced from the s1
csvscns for the Holy Sspucher during the hrs crusads
end co. they viii be forever cherished by the peasants 70
their sptiouity and sacred origin Change ucompreher