ribbon-vendor

Updated: June 1, 2025

Whether she hold council of war with her fair Maréchales de Camp, without allowing the men folks to give her their ready cut-and-dried advice, whether she be thrust into Orleans through the gap of an old gateway, and, covered with mud, be seen carried along its streets in an old arm-chair, laughing heartily, or when hastening to arrest the massacre at the Hôtel de Ville, she stops to look at Madame Riche, the ribbon-vendor, talking in her chemise to her gossip, the beadle of St.

Sutherland Menzies - Political Women, Vol. 2