Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-07-24
SOPHIA TANKARD.
La MARQUIsE DE SAINT POCHARD-
THE Warehouses ST, GOBLET.

"There died very recently. at Paris, in a house
in the Qadriicr dcS Hrdi'deS," gays the LndspeR'
deacc Bejge, from which we translate "a celebrated
and popular character. Some years ago, Lady
", connected with one of the most Illus
trious families Of the English aristocracy, after
shining a particular star Of wit and beauty in the
salons Of the faubourg St. German, left .he world
and threw herself upon the town, Tor the purpose
of Abandoning herself TO drinking-a passion
rather rare among well.bred women. She drank
to excess of absinthe, and especially of brandy
always in the common dram.shops Of the town.
"She was often to be seen at the Barriers, by
night, at the low wine merchants of the Halles. or
market. at the Place Marbert, and in the Moufe-
tard quarter, among the rag-pickers. The spirit
dealers of the places where she visited called her
Nine. la Marquis de Saint Poacher-a poachsr in
French, signifying a hard drinker. Always ele,
gantly dressed, she maintained, among the sots
whom she treated, an air of dignity, which com
manded respect However the excitement caused
by spirituous liquors often led her into elpesses
resulting in her arrest. She had passed more
than one night in the lost dc Ia Halle. 81 was
there on the 2Sth. February. lS4S."
W. pause in oar translation to remarH. that
Pochardinette-so the students were wo.ftl ia.
millarly call heron the evening of FebruaSa .4th
1913, the last time w saw her, was in q m ibet
in the Rue de la HaIpe. where a party a Nung
gentlemen. fresh from barricade fighting. v re-
freshing themselves, after having laid III ereap.
ons on the table. Poe uardinette was = 'ng
the latter, when one of the revolutioni> sEIo ate;t
ed her to lay them down. We might = fiuu'
membered the event, mad it not betf n !,
young man was, accidentally we b5s' hecuo,
exact words of one of j. SannazaP1d ihg "a
epigrams, in which Venus is requestsyp. rel. tC
touch the sword of Mars. Tne
"IIer family" says the Independence JIttlgc
kept an eye on her, but only to give her d;nnsnd
some pension for in accordance with the apsnci
pies of British liberty " they did not opp,nou he
inclinations.
Gone day, or rather one night, she n: in
Cabaret de Ia Halle, a tipsy student, some Slenty
years old, a drinker of bad absinthe, siugilE this
refrain from Beranger:
Let us sell our books!
In wine let them DO sunk;
It's nothing to be tipsy,
So, friends let us gel drunk
The lady fell in love with the song and tn,
request of the young man, and married the latter
This suited the youth exactly, who had dissipa
ed all his fortune. Her money henceforth KEEP
him well supplied with liquor. But in two year
after he wasfound dead in the street. Intoxica
ton had killed him.
MADAME did not break her heart, but kept o,
drinking. She inhabited a pretty and ~fancifull,
furnished set of rooms, IN which she herself wa
finally found dead-dead of a cerebral congestion
caused by the intoxication which had carrie,
off her husband!"
THAT was the end of a very pretty little girl
Well do we remember her in her broad felt ha
and feather, and the song commemorative to,
bellies of the Prddo.
So they go-presty girls and all!-Phaaaelphie
Bulletin.