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Updated: June 15, 2025
You may attach so much more credit to what I say of this individual, as I can only add, that he was by no means one of my best friends. When Louis XV heard of the nomination of the comte d'Aranda to the embassy from Spain to France, he observed to me, "The king of Spain gets rid of his Choiseul by sending him to me."
I was astonished, for this was more than I had bargained for. Madame d'Urfe had given him masters of all sorts, and a pretty little pony for him to learn riding on. He was styled M. le Comte d'Aranda. A girl of sixteen, Viar's daughter, a fine-looking young woman, was appointed to look after him, and she was quite proud to call herself my lord's governess.
The movement of intelligence and philosophy at Paris was responded to by the agitation of the rest of Europe, and especially in America. Spain, under M. d'Aranda, was become alive to the general feeling; the Jesuits had disappeared; the Inquisition had extinguished its fires; the Spanish nobility blushed for the sacred theocracy of its monks. Voltaire had correspondents at Cadiz and at Madrid.
A prefatory remark Madame Brillant The marechale de Luxembourg's cat Despair of the marechale The ambassador, Beaumarchais, and the duc de Chaulnes the comte d'Aranda Louis XV and his relics The abbe de Beauvais His sermons He is appointed bishop
In the first place, he had just completed the destruction of the Jesuits, and this was entitling him to no small thanks and praises from encyclopedists. The simplicity of comte d'Aranda indemnified us in some degree for the haughty superciliousness of his predecessor.
I Drive My Brother The Abbe From Paris Madame du Rumain Recovers Her Voice Through My Cabala A Bad Joke The Corticelli I Take d'Aranda to London My Arrival At Calais As usual, Madame d'Urfe received me with open arms, but I was surprised at hearing her tell Aranda to fetch the sealed letter she had given him in the morning.
I assured her that I would faithfully observe all my promises, and she replied that her happiness was complete, and that she knew she owed it all to me. In fine, I took d'Aranda and his top-boots, which he was continually admiring, to my inn, whence we started in the evening, as he had begged me to travel by night. He was ashamed to be seen in a carriage dressed as a courier.
In the same year the comte de Fuentes, ambassador from Spain to the court of Louis XV, took leave of us. He was replaced by the comte d'Aranda, who was in a manner in disgrace with his royal master: this nobleman arrived preceded by a highly flattering reputation.
I saw the room and the bath destined for the new boarder, everything was clean and neat, and I gave them a hundred crowns, for which they handed me a receipt. I told them that the lady would either come in the course of the day, or on the day following. I went to dine with Madame d'Urfe and the young Count d'Aranda.
At ten o'clock in the morning, cheered by the pleasant feeling of being once more in that Paris which is so imperfect, but which is the only true town in the world, I called on my dear Madame d'Urfe, who received me with open arms. She told me that the young Count d'Aranda was quite well, and if I liked she would ask him to dinner the next day.
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