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Show Reverse of French Noblemen. Sad have been the reverses of the old French nobility since Edmund Burke penned his splendid eulogy. According to M. Lescnre a grandson of that same Marquis d'llauteroche who chivalrously requested the English troops at the battle of Fontenoy to "fire first" ended his days lis a common policeman. Sadder still, from the point of view of the amateurs of "blue blood," one of the noble family of Babon de la Bourdaisiere is now a washerwoman. Representatives of other noblo families equally famous in their time are, or were, according to tho same authority, occupying the humble positions posi-tions of gamekeeper, carpenter's apprentice, appren-tice, house painter, cab driver, miller's assistant, innkeeper, conductor of un omnibus, bos opener at n theatre, gas man, bathing man, maker of mousetraps, chorus singer at the opera, and woodman, wood-man, while ono, who is a' great grand-cousin grand-cousin of the illustrious Cardinal de Retz, unites in his own person the lowly offices of grave digger and village fiddler. London Lon-don News. |