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Though no date is assigned, Miss Walkinshaw certainly joined Charles in the summer of 1752. 'Madame La Grandemain' and Goring were very properly indisposed to aid in bringing the lady to Charles. To M. Stouf. 'June 6, 1752.
I venture a guess at Lady Montagu, because Dr. Dominique, Faubourg de St. Germain, in which street Montesquieu lived. The deposit was restored later to Charles by 'Madame La Grandemain, 'sister' of Mademoiselle Luci. In truth, Charles, for a Prince with an ambition to conquer England, was extremely poor, and a loyal lady did not throw away her guineas, as Dr.
In March 1753, Charles was trafficking with Hussey, lieutenant- colonel of a regiment stationed in Luxembourg. He conceived a plan for sending Goring to Spain, and he put some boxes of his, long kept by 'La Grandemain, into the hands of Waters. He wrote a mutilated letter to Alexander Murray in Flanders, and there our information, as far as the Stuart Papers go, fails us.
In June he tried Frankfort-on-the-Maine: his letters to 'La Grandemain' show him in correspondence with M. St. Germain, whether the General or the famous 'deathless charlatan' does not appear. In July he took a house in Liege. Col. of Lord Ogleby's Regiment in Garrison at Air, to meet him at Calais. The Young Pretender shew'd Pickle Loch Gairy's report of his late Expedition with Dr.
In unravelling the hidden allusions of Charles's correspondence, I at first recognised Madame d'Aiguillon in Charles's friend 'La Grandemain. The name seemed a suitable sobriquet, for a lady with gros bras, like Madame d'Aiguillon, might have large hands. The friendship of 'La Grandemain' with the philosophe, Montesquieu, also pointed to Madame d'Aiguillon.
'Madame La Grandemain' had to announce the death of her 'sister: the Prince, in a note to a pseudonymous correspondent, expresses his concern for 'poor Mademoiselle Luci. And so this girl, with her girlish mystery and romance, passes into the darkness from which she had scarcely emerged, carrying our regrets, for indeed she is the most sympathetic, of the women who, in these melancholy years, helped or hindered Prince Charles.
Mademoiselle Ferrand's father is apparently described by d'Hozier as 'Ferrand, Ecuyer, Sieur des Marres et de Ronville en Normandie. Many of Charles's letters are addressed to 'Mademoiselle Luci, SISTER of 'La Grandemain. Now Madame de Vasse seems, from a passage in the Duc de Luynes's 'Memoires, to have been the only daughter of her father, M. de Peze.
Hopes from Prussia The Murrays of Elibank Imprisonment of Alexander Murray Recommended to Charles The Elibank plot Prussia and the Earl Marischal His early history Ambassador of Frederick at Versailles His odd household Voltaire The Duke of Newcastle's resentment Charles's view of Frederick's policy His alleged avarice Lady Montagu His money-box Goring and the Earl Marischal Secret meetings The lace shop Albemarle's information Charles at Ghent Hanbury Williams's mares' nests Charles and 'La Grandemain' She and Goring refuse to take his orders Appearance of Miss Walkinshaw Her history Remonstrances of Goring 'Commissions for the worst of men' 'The little man' Lady Primrose Death of Mademoiselle Luci November 10, date of postponed Elibank plot Danger of dismissing an agent.
That box, again, as he notes, was restored by 'La Grandemain. This fact, with Grimm's anecdote, identifies 'La Grandemain, not with Madame d'Aiguillon, but with Madame de Vasse, 'the Comtesse, as Goring calls her, though Grimm makes her a Marquise. If Montesquieu's private papers and letters in MS. had been published in full, we should probably know more of this matter.
In consequence thereof, for the edification of our successors, and to renew the chain of years and goblets, I, the said Godeschal, have invited Messieurs Doublet, second clerk; Vassal, third clerk; Herisson and Grandemain, clerks; and Dumets, sub-clerk, to breakfast, Sunday next, at the "Cheval Rouge," on the Quai Saint-Bernard, where we will celebrate the victory of obtaining this volume which contains the Charter of our gullets.
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