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Updated: May 23, 2025
The Sairmeuse family is one of the oldest and most illustrious in France. It must not be confounded with the ducal family of Sermeuse, whose name is written with an 'e. Leaving France at the beginning of the Revolution, Anne de Sairmeuse began by serving in the army of Conde.
"They say he had a hand in the escape of the ci-devant Due de Sermeuse and all his brats from the very tumbril which was taking them to execution." A cry of loathing and execration followed this statement. There was vigorous shaking of clenched fists and then a groan of baffled rage. "We almost had him this time. If it had not been for these confounded, ill-lighted streets "
Some other time you may catch, in the crowd, snatches of a strange conversation between two crapulous rascals. "It was at the time," says one, "when I drove that bright chestnut team that I had bought for twenty thousand francs of the eldest son of the Duke de Sermeuse." "I remember," replies the other; "for at that moment I gave six thousand francs a month to little Cabriole of the Varieties."
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