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Updated: June 23, 2025
Of Madame de Vasse I have been unable to learn much: a lady of that name was presented at Court in 1745, and the Duc de Luynes describes her as 'conveniently handsome. She is always alluded to as 'La Grandemain' in Charles's correspondence, but once he lets her real name slip out in a memorandum.
Madame La Grandemain, writing on November 5, 1752, expresses her inconsolable sorrow for her 'sister's' death, and says that she has made arrangements, as regards the Prince's affairs, in case of her own decease. The Prince, on November 10, 1752, sends his condolences, and this date is well worth remembering.
Old Waters had died, and young Waters was requested to be careful of Charles's portrait by La Tour, of his 'marble bousto' by Lemoine, and of his 'silver sheald. To Madame La Grandemain he writes in a peremptory style: 'Malgre toute votre repugnance je vous ordonne d'executer avec toutes les precautions possibles ce dont je vous ai charge. What was this commission?
I hope that this letter will not find you in Paris. I have little doubt that the 'repugnances' of 'Madame La Grandemain' were concerned with the bringing of Miss Walkinshaw to the Prince. The person who is in danger of losing the Prince's favour is clearly Goring, figuring under the name of 'Stouf, and, at this moment, with 'Madame La Grandemain' in the country.
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