Valet de chambre

[…] he came to this country in the ſervice of an Engliſh gentleman, whom he was obliged to quit through the malice of the valet de chambre, who taking advantage of the young man’s being overtaken with liquor on the laſt St. Andrew’s day, turned him off, on the pretext of his being an habitual drunkard.

In order to be sure that it was not some illusion, they called their valets de chambre; but no sooner had these appeared with their flambeaux, than the spectre disappeared.

Toward nightfall her valet de chambre brought in a letter that he announced portentously came from the grande duchesse of Berg and Cleves.