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It was in this, Chaillot's house, that the Pretender put up, and where he saw the Queen, his mother, who often stopped at the Convent of the Filles de Sainte Marie-Therese. Thence he set out in a post-chaise of Torcy's, by way of Alencon, for Brittany, where he meant to embark.
But I knew nothing definite, and hardening my heart to do the work myself, I went on, until I found again the alley between the blind walls where I had left the dog-stealer. It was noon. The alley was empty, the neighbouring lane at the back of the Filles Dieu towards St. Martin's was empty.
Accordingly, at Westminster he gave ground for Catholic Poor Schools, with property endowment of 50l. per annum; and gave great assistance to the Filles de Marie, a community of religious ladies so employed in the Horseferry Road, in the same district.
Thence homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle des filles,"
The Dauphin had an affair of gallantry with another of his wife's filles d'honneur called Rambures. He did not affect any dissimulation with his wife; a great uproar ensued; and that wicked Bessola, following the directions of old Maintenon, who planned everything, detached the Dauphin from his wife more and more.
His body rests in the chapel, like that of the simplest private person, until the time, apparently very distant, when it shall be transported to England. His heart is at the Filles de Sainte Marie, of Chaillot. Immediately afterwards, the Prince of Wales was received by the King as King of England, with all the formalities and state with which his father before him had been received.
He was silent a moment, twisting his lip. "When do you go?" "In a week or two when there's room for me." He laughed. "Oh! come then there's time for a few more talks. Listen you think I'm such an idle dog. I'm nothing of the sort. I've nearly finished a whole new play. Only well, I couldn't talk to you about it it's not a play for jeunes filles. But after all I might read you a few scenes.
"Nos filles dans les monastères, Nos prisonniers dans les cachots. Nos martyrs dont le sang se répand
Hence they were named, "Les Filles de l'Opéra," as persons sometimes said "Les Filles de la Reine." À propos of the Opera, Madame Grassini, once no less celebrated for her beauty than for her voice, was of the party last night. She is, and deservedly, a general favourite in Parisian society, in which her vivacity, good-nature, and amiability, are duly appreciated.
In 1764 the Champs Élysées ended at Chaillot, a little to the W. of the Rond Point, an old feudal property which Louis XI. gave to Philippe de Comines in 1450, and which in 1651 sheltered the unhappy widow of Charles I. Here Catherine de' Medici built a château, but château and nunnery of the Filles de Sainte Marie, founded by the English queen, disappeared in 1790.
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