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The history of this affair has been already related. Parisian society was divided into two factions on the merits of the quarrel those who censured the ingratitude of the younger woman, and those who accused the marquise of cruelty and injustice. But many of the oldest friends of the latter aided her rival. The Marechale de Luxembourg furnished her apartments in the Rue de Belle-Chasse.

He resumed, little by little, his accustomed serenity, and, at the end of the month, appeared to have got over it. "What," he asked me, "are those buildings with which you are busy in Paris, opposite the Ladies of Belle-Chasse? I hear of a convent; is it your intention to retire?" "It is a 'refuge of foresight," I answered him. "Who can count upon the morrow?

He resumed, little by little, his accustomed serenity, and, at the end of the month, appeared to have got over it. "What," he asked me, "are those buildings with which you are busy in Paris, opposite the Ladies of Belle-Chasse? I hear of a convent; is it your intention to retire?" "It is a 'refuge of foresight," I answered him. "Who can count upon the morrow?

He resumed, little by little, his accustomed serenity, and, at the end of the month, appeared to have got over it. "What," he asked me, "are those buildings with which you are busy in Paris, opposite the Ladies of Belle-Chasse? I hear of a convent; is it your intention to retire?" "It is a 'refuge of foresight," I answered him. "Who can count upon the morrow?

But a few paces southward bring us facing the ancient convent of Panthémont, now used as a barrack for cavalry, forming the corner of the Rue de Belle-Chasse and that of the Rue de Grenelle; the chapel, which has a dome, is an interesting architectural object. This is one of the aristocratic streets of Paris, where the most ancient families of France have their town residences; the Rue St.