valet-de-place

noun

(historical) In France, a person who offered his services as a guide, messenger, etc. for hire, especially to strangers.

The valet-de-place guided us through the streets of Paris.

意味（1）

(historical) In France, a person who offered his services as a guide, messenger, etc. for hire, especially to strangers.

I therefore added to my own English servants […] a Frenchman, who had formerly served me as valet de place, and of whom I had a very good opinion.