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berry, de Saint Luc, de Lery, de Saint Ours, my two 

 uncles, de La Kaudiere and others, were in the habit of 

 speaking enthusiastically of France, of the magnificence 

 and glitter of Versailles, of the kind heartedness of the 

 King, of the beauty of the Queen, and of the affability 

 of the whole French Court. M. de Salaberry had seen 

 the Dauphin at the garden of the Tuileries, in the arms 

 of a lady of honor, to witness the ascent of a balloon 

 launched by the Montgolfier Brothers. " This loveable 

 and handsome child," used he to say, " raised his little 

 hands to heaven, to which, after enduring horrible tor- 

 tures, he was soon to wing his flight," and every one 

 deplored the royal misfortunes and execrated the tor- 

 mentors — les bourreaux. M. Louis Bene Chaussegros 

 de Lery belonged to Louis XIV's body guard; happen- 

 ing to be absent on leave, on the 10th August, 1793, 

 he thus escaped the massacre of that day. On his 

 return to Canada, he was in the habit of singing a 

 touching lament which brought tears to the eyes of all 

 who heard him. Though I was very young at that 

 time and can remember it but imperfectly, I shall recall 

 it and leave it to our poets, should they not like my 

 version, to improve on it. 



Lady Milnes, the wife of Governor Sir Robt. Shore 

 Milnes, asked M. de Lery to sing this lament at a 

 dinner given at the Chateau Saint Louis ; bursting into 

 tears on listening to the first stanza, she left the table, 

 but returning after ten minutes, she requested M. de 

 Lery to continue : — 



" Un troubadour Bearnais, (1) 



Les yeux inondes de larmes, 

 A ses montagnards chantait 

 Ce refrain, sourd d'alarmes : 

 Le petit-fils de Henri 

 Est prisonnier dans Paris ! 



(1) Henri IV was a native of Beam, re-united to France 

 by Louis XIII. 



