drouyn

Updated: June 8, 2025

It had been suggested once or twice that I should use it, but as I always had heard a gruesome tale of Madame Drouyn de l'Huys, when her husband was Foreign Minister, hanging in space for four or five hours between the two floors, I was not inclined to repeat that experience.

Mary Alsop King Waddington - My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879