Blanchesseuses.

BLANCHESSEUSES.

WASHERWOMEN,—(who seldom appear in the *suds* for want of an advantage they enjoy in the present instance, namely: “a nice drying day,”)—are busily engaged in performing their ablutions on the variegated wardrobes of the good people of *Sèvres*, (famous for its Porcelain Manufacture);—those garments which have undergone the operation of *cudgelling and rinsing*—hang in the rear, and are “swelling to the wind.”

Some of the Royal Family, escorted by Lancers, are crossing the bridge, on their way to Versailles, or Rambouillet,—whither excursions are occasionally made by them for the diversions of *La Chasse*.