text:  The picture was taken down at last to the great sorrow of the old servants who seemed to regard it as a patron saint and who declared that its presence and its presence alone could have saved the mansion in the first instance from being burned by the "patriots " who generally began their reforms of the nobility by laying their chateaux in ashes and in the next from being plundered by the multitudes of whiskered savages speaking unknown tongues and came to leave France without "_ni pain ni vin_" for her legitimate sons