. The New England magazine. t to dine at itsFrenchy inns, trade a bitat the haberdashers shopkept by the Abbe deSevigny, once archdeaconof Tours, or to dance atthe Governors HouseWith high-born pioneerswho had so narrowly es-caped the would we notgive for Benjaminsand Priscillas account of whatthey saw at Frenchtown,—their pic-ture of the stir in the little hamletwhen it was known that the threeOrleans princes had passed throughthe Wind Gap on horseback, hadspent a night at Wilkesbarre inthe old red tavern on the riverbank, and would soon be at theGovernors Chartres-Eglite, Duk
. The New England magazine. t to dine at itsFrenchy inns, trade a bitat the haberdashers shopkept by the Abbe deSevigny, once archdeaconof Tours, or to dance atthe Governors HouseWith high-born pioneerswho had so narrowly es-caped the would we notgive for Benjaminsand Priscillas account of whatthey saw at Frenchtown,—their pic-ture of the stir in the little hamletwhen it was known that the threeOrleans princes had passed throughthe Wind Gap on horseback, hadspent a night at Wilkesbarre inthe old red tavern on the riverbank, and would soon be at theGovernors Chartres-Eglite, Dukede Montpensier and Count deBeaujolais. The pretty shops of Frenchtown,with their attractive merchandise,drew not a little trade from neighbor-ing towns like Wilkesbarre. Themaking of maple sugar, vinegar, mo-lasses, tar and potash were amongthe industries of the colony. A brew-ery was contemplated, when the newsof the amnesty of Napoleon Bona-parte (1800) was received, under whichroyal refugees of France might return, -1. MARIE ANTOINETTE. and their confiscated estates would berestored upon conditions, easy enoughfor homesick exiles to fulfil,—-Talleyrands outcry, after a sojournin the United States, voicing the sen-timents of many: I shall die if I re-main another year under the Stars andStripes.* Descendants of Bartholomew La-porte and Charles Honet, who did not * Blenncrhassettsp. 262. Life of Madame De Stael, vol. II, 66 MARIE ANTOINETTE HOUSES.
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