Contains old furniture, old paintings, old china--stands in an extensive park--one of the lions of this neighborhood, Mademoiselle--also Monsieur." "To whom does it belong ?" I asked, somewhat interested in this account.
"That, Monsieur, is a question difficult to answer," replied the fluent hairdresser, running his fingers through his locks and dispersing a gentle odor of rose-oil.

"It was formerly the property of the ancient family of Saint Aulaire.

The last Marquis de Saint Aulaire, with his wife and family, were guillotined in 1793.

Some say that the young heir was saved; and an individual asserting himself to be that heir did actually put forward a claim to the estate, some twenty, or five-and-twenty years ago, but lost his cause for want of sufficient proof.

In the meantime, it had passed into the hands of a wealthy republican family, descended, it is said, from General Dumouriez.