The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-03-12
THE SAVOTARD.
y TALE FROM REAL LIFE.


Every in Paris remembers the brilliant
marriage of Ii. Andrew j. who was one
OF the richest bankers in the Chaussee d. Autin
to Mile V, only daughter of the Marouis
dN--, formerly the am bassador and peer in
France II was celebrated last winter with
great pomp at the chapel of the Palace of Lux
umbourg, and in the magnificent hotel of NJ.
=. But everybody has not heard of the
strange and c!Iarmiog episode that marked that
aristocratic hyuen, and which has given TO the
husband IA reputation for originality withou, an
equal.
1t was the morning OF tte marriage the
equipages of NJ. Andrew i were wa;ting
III the court yard: and be himself waited for his
witnesses III saloon, gilded from top to bottom
when valet announced the totlo,s Of Monsieur.
len tailors, each carrying a large bundle I'M
der MS arm; and all like Roman augurs, could
not look Al each other without laughing.
These ton -L4llors brou ght- fifty costumes Of
Sayoyard chimney swoepers, the size VARYING
IRON eight 10 fourteen years, which they laid on
the splendid arm chairs of the saloon Al. J.
examined With the eye of IA conaoisseur this col
lection OF h;uns wastcoat>. OF vests, and of small
clothes, OF a coarse kind of cloth, declared him
self well satisfied, and distributed two tbonsand
francs among TIE talors, who retired in aston.
ishment.
Ai'et t'e talloIF came the hItters with fifty
caps then the shirtnakcrs with fifty shirts: then
the wooden shoemakers. with fifty pairs of wood
en- shoes; and lastly, the wooden instrument
makers. with fifty hurdy gurdie.. All went
away literally paid, but each more amazed than
the others, and asked themselves whether il WAS
q bet OF some my,ticaton
H. i .hea called his Office boys 10 him,
and said 20 them:
Go and scatter yourselves over all the Quar-
ters OF IarIs and invite TO dine with me ali tho
chimney Sweep-rs you meet Promise louis TO
an thoSe who accept; and whcu Won have fifty
bring them here, You will fDd IN my bath
room, all that will be necessary for the wnshinr
OF them from head to foot This OPERATION fin.
lshed, you viii make them take these costumes.
eaeh nttinE ms sac; then they will put them
selves at table III this saloon, while the other
guests are dining in the next hall.
Inc Boys retired, astouuded, and repeated to
themselves the order, before they could assure
themselves that it was not dream, and wen, TO
execute 1t, without being able to understand
what 1t ment. 1t was one of the seyerest dars
OF winter a hard frost had succeeded the fall of
snow the pale sun shone on the glazed fros.
without melting it. 1t was time to require fires
IN all the chimneys. In word, it was the true
harvest time of chimney sweepers
The messengers of NJ j had no tronbIe
IN mining out Savoyards, crying through the
streets
Srro the bottom to the top from the bottom to the top
The chimney from the bottom to the op!"
otherr chanting on the roofs the ballads of the
Kitchen, or some chin ch0yous Others sween;no
the snow, and CRYING to all who wen. by 81
little sous, my Colonel my General nv Prince
my Emperor :" &c. until the little sous attended
them Tor no one knows better than the Sayovard
the act Of importuning.
Eiuura :, vyt,r..If ~.
young IoEues when, instead OF a sous they were
promised 4 louis, on the only condition of tbni,
coming 10 wedding feast. The news ran from,
?:nthihey TO chimney Ike tclegraphc despatch;
Al less IMAM two hours you conld not have found
a0aYyord II Maubert place or Gueriu. Boi.sean
Al the chimneys which depended on
'ngIn ln"t Day We're Threatened by great fire.
having only The embarrassment of choice, the
messengers OF the feast bravely took the blacklist
Inc "'i,'es'' ana the raggedest sweepers and
when they entered the beautiful Lo1ol Of M
=, you would have said that the nalace .,
Jupiter was carried by assault by Vulcan, The
contrast was much more striking when orr IittI,
neh formed line of equipage which branch.
WV huV''ai tram from LuXumbourg On one
sioe were the iiveries of gold and silver, ,he
ufesses OF SIR and velvet, the laccs and Jewels
,he most elegant dandies and the handsomes'
lauies OF lar!s; on the other the face. covered
WIN s,o' ana smoke, tie matted hair and latter.
cd clothes, on half naked bodies.
The brilliant guests looked awav and .slod
themselves what this meant. NJ fixed on .br
Savoyards melanchol y look, and seemed to saw
to himself: us the happiness here or there 7;
as here he added, and he pressed his lips to tn,
hand of his charming wife. Wv
And he introduced her as queen into he,
palace, not without making signs to his servant.
to take charge of the chimney sweepers.
An hour afterward a stream, us black N. ink
crossed the courtyard on its way TO the drain
1t was from the washing of the Savoyards, who
AZ me same time came from the bath, as from the
cauldron Of Tson, so mnch purer and winter. 90
much .plumper and fresher, that they truly seem
ed TO have changed their skin, and to zee for tn,
first time the air and the sun. You'd have said
mat troop of frightful demons had been chang
ed into cherubs or graces.