malartie

Updated: May 28, 2025

"This wine is not original of Ohio. No, no. Ze cask was from Bordeaux, very old, very old he has fourteen years. Presented to me by my countryman, Comte Malartie. I speak ze truth. From this very cask I have ze honor to drink also ze health of ze General St. Clair, and at one time of Daniel Boone. Eh bien! Long have I suffer in this wilderness; it is fifteen years that Eloy Deville was ze fool to leave France, to leave my native Lyons, and seek ze Terre promise to find ze tree of natural sugar, ze plants also with wax candles for ze fruit, ze no work, no tax, no war, no king ze paradise on ze ground! Oui, sold I not all my property take ze ship, take ze wagon, ze flatboat en route pour Gallipolis! Ah! mon dieu! ze damn fever kill ma femme; you see ze old Frenchman in ze poverty; voil

William Henry Venable - A Dream of Empire: Or, The House of Blennerhassett