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D'Artagnan took the pen and wrote: "Between Messire d'Artagnan, ex-lieutenant of the king's musketeers, at present residing in the Rue Tiquetonne, Hotel de la Chevrette; and the Sieur Planchet, grocer, residing in the Rue les Lombards, at the sign of the Pilon d'Or, it has been agreed as follows: A company, with a capital of forty thousand livres, and formed for the purpose of carrying out an idea conceived by M. d'Artagnan, and the said Planchet approving of it in all points, will place twenty thousand livres in the hands of M. d'Artagnan.
She was, in fact, so absent, and always so little attentive to these things, that half the time she did not perceive them. The Baron d'Holbach, who never, as I heard of, had been at the Chevrette, was one of the latter.
A most active search was still prosecuted in the house near the Hotel de la Chevrette for the discovery of Planchet. At about a league and a half from the city, D'Artagnan, finding that in his impatience he had set out too soon, stopped to give the horses breathing time. The inn was full of disreputable looking people, who seemed as if they were on the point of commencing some nightly expedition.
The first row, seeing their sergeant stop, stopped in their turn, and so on to the very last. "These citizens are dreadfully ridiculous," observed D'Artagnan to Porthos and went on his way. Five minutes afterward he entered the hotel of La Chevrette, where pretty Madeleine, the hostess, came to him.
Away back we sailed, till we once more made out the entrance to the bay, which was called Camaret Bay. The craft we were about to attack, and hoped to capture, was the Chevrette, a ship corvette, mounting twenty guns a powerful vessel, and not likely to be taken without a severe struggle.
The park or garden of Montmorency is not a plain, like that of the Chevrette. It is uneven, mountainous, raised by little hills and valleys, of which the able artist has taken advantage; and thereby varied his groves, ornaments, waters, and points of view, and, if I may so speak, multiplied by art and genius a space in itself rather narrow.
It was he who suggested the erection of a theatre at which her friends' productions might be offered to the world of critics. Through his efforts, the great men who made her salon famous were gathered at "La Chevrette," where the actors and players soon drew the attention of literary Paris.
It may not perhaps be useless to remark that by the means of Theresa, the same La Roche became acquainted with Madam le Vasseur, whom Grimm still kept at Deuil, near La Chevrette, and not far from Montmorency.
About 1 a.m. the flotilla coming in sight of the Chevrette, she opened a heavy fire on them of grape and musketry, and at the same time they were assailed by a fire of musketry from the shore.
"No, let us belong to no party, but remain friends; let us be neither Cardinalists nor Frondists." "Adieu, then." And D'Artagnan poured out a glass of wine. "To old times," he said. "Yes," returned Aramis. "Unhappily, those times are past." "Nonsense! They will return," said D'Artagnan. "At all events, if you want me, remember the Rue Tiquetonne, Hotel de la Chevrette."
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