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ANECDOTE OP BOISSY* 4'2fJ 



Their Friend haftened to take meafures for their de- 

 liverance; but could not fucceed without difficulty. 

 They thought they had already done with all the trou-* 

 bles of the world ; and were fuddenly terrified at being 

 forced into them again ! Void of fenfe and reflection, 

 they fubmitted to the attempts that were made to re- 

 Hore them to life. At length their friend hit upon the 

 moft efficacious means. He took the child from their 

 arms, and thus called up the laft fpark of paternal and 

 maternal tendernefs. He gave the child to eat; 

 who with one hand held his bread, and with the other 

 alternately fhook his father and mother ; his piteous 

 moans rouzed them at length from their deathlike flum- 

 ber. It feemed at once to awaken a new love of life 

 in their hearts, when they faw that their child had left 

 the bed and their embraces. 



Nature did her office. Their friend procured them 

 ftrengthening broths, which he put to their lips with 

 the utmoft caution, and did not leave them till every 

 iymptom of reftored life was fully vifible. Thus were 

 they faved. 



This tranfa6lion made much noife in Paris, and at 

 length reached the ears of the march-ionefs de Pompa- 

 dour. BoirTy's deplorable fituation moved her. She 

 immediately fent him a hundred louis d'ors, and foon 

 after procured him the profitable place of comtrolleur 

 du Mercure de France, with a penfton for his wife and 

 child, if they outlived him. 



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