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Updated: June 14, 2025
He was not hated, because hatred implies a species of honor, but he was universally despised. His father hated him; he hated his father. The reciprocity was edifying. I have often seen the duc de Fronsac, and always with disgust. He had incurred the extremity of punishment; when trying to carry off a butcher's daughter, he rendered himself guilty of the triple crimes of arson, rape, and robbery.
The Duc de Fronsac also, from some situation he held at Court, though not included in the private household of Her Majesty at Trianon, conceiving himself highly injured by not being suffered to interfere, was much exasperated, and took no pains to prevent others from receiving the infection of his resentment. "Of all the arts, music was the only one which Her Majesty ever warmly patronised.
News of his purpose had already travelled down to Blaye, and therefore no sooner were my feet once more on the soil of my beloved France, than I turned them towards Libourne, or rather Fronsac, and the morning after my arrival there, started for the capital. The Cossacks and Prussians were at the gates of Paris. "Last night we could see the fires of their bivouacs.
In general, those who wished to thrive at court only sought how to make their courage remembered; M. de Duras was only employed in making his forgotten. The prince de Terigny, the comte d'Escars, the duc de Fleury, were not the least amusing. They kept up a lively strain of conversation, and the king laughed outrageously. But the vilest of the party was the duc de Fronsac. Ye gods! what a wretch!
The planets were consulted, and the answer received was, that two centuries from the day on which Providence had so highly elevated himself, the family, upon whom rested all his hopes of perpetuating his name, should fail entirely in its male descent. You see that the duc de Fronsac has only one child, an infant not many days old.
On the 28th of June, at daybreak, three of the forts were in possession of the French; the same day the English commandant decided upon capitulation. The Duke of Fronsac, Marshal Richelieu's son, hurried to Versailles to announce the good news. There was great joy at court and amongst the French nation; the French army and navy considered themselves avenged of England's insults.
The king's friends The duc de Fronsac The duc d'Ayen's remark Manner of living at court The marquis de Dreux -Breze Education of Louis XV The <Parc-aux-Cerfs> Its household Its inmates Mere Bompart Livres expended on the <Parc-aux-Cerfs> Good advice Madame I was now firmly fixed at court, the king, more than ever devoted to me, seemed unable to dispense with my constant presence.
The king's friends The duc de Fronsac The duc d'Ayen's remark Manner of living at court The marquis de Dreux -Breze Education of Louis XV The Parc-aux-Cerfs Its household Its inmates Mere Bompart Livres expended on the Parc-aur-Cerfs Good advice Madame I was now firmly fixed at court, the king, more than ever devoted to me, seemed unable to dispense with my constant presence.
It is not everybody who knows the virtue of the genuine Fronsac, especially that which was yielded by the old vines before the phylloxera destroyed them, but most people are familiar with the brand. But for this, the tertre would long since have ceased to be famous, notwithstanding Charlemagne. The hill has a strange appearance, for it rises abruptly from the river bank in the midst of the plain.
Originally Romanesque, it has been pulled about and changed almost as much as the Tertre de Fronsac, which I am sure I shall never wish to climb again. I have reached I need not say how the south-eastern corner of the Bordelais, and am now at Bazas in very hot September weather, I am not only as warm as a lizard of the dusty roadside likes to be, but am hungry and thirsty.
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