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But among all the fossils which Cuvier found in the Parisian basin, nothing was more monstrous than the poissardes of the old Revolution, or the petroleuses of the recent Commune, and I fear that the breed is not extinct.
Throughout this street, as Marie Antoinette was first entering Paris, the poissardes brought her bouquets, singing: "La rose est la reine des fleurs. Antoinette est la reine des coeurs." Turning east toward Old Paris, we pass, on the right of the Rue St. Honore, the Church of St.
Savoyards, poissardes, and the whole motley assemblage of the lower classes of both sexes in Paris, behave themselves with as much propriety as the more refined visiters; though their remarks, perhaps, may be expressed in language less polished.
The Poissardes cried out, “Vive le Garde Impériale!” All they uttered was “Vive les Poissardes!” They looked as black as thunder. I understood there was a cause of dissatisfaction among them in consequence of a mark of distinction having been given to the shop-keeping soldiers and not any to them.
"Hear me," said my sister to her, "I have been attached to the Queen ever since I was fifteen years of age; she gave me my marriage portion; I served her when she was powerful and happy. She is now unfortunate. Ought I to abandon her?" "She is right," cried the poissardes; "she ought not to abandon her mistress; let us make an entry for them."
Burke denounced his female opponents as "viragoes and English poissardes;" and Horace Walpole wrote of them as "Amazonian allies," who "spit their rage at eighteen-pence a head, and will return to Fleet-ditch, more fortunate in being forgotten than their predecessors, immortalized in the 'Dunciad." Peter Burke, in his "Life of Burke," says that the replies made by Dr. Price, Mrs.
Nearly opposite the window the King halted to receive the address from the Moulins and Poissardes, some of whom appeared to me drunk. A child dressed like a cupid, with a chaplet of flowers in its hand, was handed to the Duchess d’Angoulême, who sat on the left hand of the King.
The King's carriage was preceded by the 'poissardes', who had arrived the day before from Paris, and a rabble of prostitutes, the vile refuse of their sex, still drunk with fury and wine. Several of them rode astride upon cannons, boasting, in the most horrible songs, of the crimes they had committed themselves, or seen others commit.
"How did you get off at last," said I? "I was obliged," answered he, "to shout and swear with the poissardes, while the heads of many of my comrades were thrown out of the windows." "The poissardes," added I, "set no bounds to their cruelty?"
In the midst of their troop they carried two busts covered with laurels the busts of the regicides Ravaillac and Clement, with flags before them, inscribed, "They were glorious; for they slew kings!" The busts were presented to the president, and their bearers, a pair of poissardes, insisted on giving him the republican embrace, in sign of fraternization.
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