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I have only time to intreat you, my dearest love, not to forget an unhappy man, who pays most dearly for the error he committed in parting from you, and who never felt before how tenderly he loved you. My respectful compliments to Madame d'Ayen, and my affectionate regards to my sisters.

Present my most affectionate respects to Madame d'Ayen, and the Marshal de Noailles; a thousand kind regards to all my sisters, the Abbe Fayon, and M. de Margelay. I embrace ten thousand times our beloved children. Adieu, adieu. December 5th, 1781.

"A louis," added Madame, "to obviate anything singular, on the other hand." "It is you who make me economical, under certain circumstances," said the King. "Do you remember the driver of the fiacre? I wanted to give him a LOUIS, and Duc d'Ayen said, 'You will be known; so that I gave him a crown." He was going to tell the whole story.

This ambitious woman subsequently married her niece to the Duc d'Ayen, son of the Maréchal de Noailles, and as a marriage portion or possibly to avoid unpleasant consequences turned over the property of Maintenon to the young bride and her husband to whose family, the Noailles, it has ever since belonged.

When the duc d'Ayen quitted the room, 'That nobleman is by no means to my taste," said I to the king, "he has the air of a spy, who wishes me no good." "Do you really think so, my lovely comtesse?" "I am certain of it; and I already shudder at the bare anticipation of an enemy having access to your majesty's ear."

The municipality had assigned M. de La Fayette as its head nor could it have chosen better: an honest people, directed by its instinct, could not have selected a man who would represent it more faithfully. The marquis de La Fayette was a patrician, possessor of an immense fortune, and allied, through his wife, daughter of the Duc d'Ayen, with the greatest families of the court.

Such is the Court; the dead are always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon. The King said, "M. Fouquet is dead, I hear." "He was no longer Fouquet," replied the Duc d'Ayen; "Your Majesty had permitted him to change that name, under which, however, he acquired all his reputation." The King shrugged his shoulders.

Some said six, eight, ten thousand livres. "You have not guessed," said the King; "it is twelve hundred livres." "For sublime talents," said the Duc d'Ayen, "it is not much. But the philosophers will make Europe resound with this letter, and the King of Prussia will have the pleasure of making a great noise at little expense."

Such is the Court; the dead are always in fault, and cannot be put out of sight too soon. The King said, "M. Fouquet is dead, I hear." "He was no longer Fouquet," replied the Duc d'Ayen; "Your Majesty had permitted him to change that name, under which, however, he acquired all his reputation." The King shrugged his shoulders.

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