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Accordingly La Houssaye, comptroller-general, rendered a perfectly clear statement, by which it appeared that there were bank bills in circulation to the amount of two milliards, seven hundred millions of livres, without any evidence that this enormous sum had been emitted in virtue of any ordinance from the general assembly of the India Company, which alone had the right to authorize such emissions.
Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 98. Saint-Edmé, vol. ii. p. 227. L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 247. Antoine Eugène Chevillard, general treasurer of the gendarmerie of France. Sully, Mém. vol. v. p. 161, quoted from Amelot de la Houssaye. Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 99. Mademoiselle de Bueil became Comtesse de Chésy on the 5th of October 1604, and two months later she obtained a divorce.
I turned to Charles du Clozel, who sat beside me, and said: "That is the Countess de la Houssaye, isn't it?" "Do you know her?" "I see her for the first time; but I guessed it." Several times I saw her looking at me, and once she smiled.
She gave us her unreserved confidence; by which, after careful sifting, we obtained only the following by no means entirely satisfactory results: Mademoiselle de Tourville and her father had escaped from the Terrorists of France by the aid of, and in company with, the Chevalier la Houssaye, with whom M. de Tourville had previously had but very slight acquaintance.
I had been about fifteen days out of the convent when terrible news caused me many tears. My dear Madelaine was about to leave me forever and return to America. The reason was this: there was much disorder in the colony of Louisiana, and the king deciding to send thither a man capable of restoring order, his choice fell upon Count Louis de la Houssaye, whose noble character he had recognized.
The mansion was superb, but the marshal preferred to stay at La Houssaye, where he kept up a great state; for over and above his aides-de-camp, each of whom had his own apartments, the number of invited guests was always considerable. One enjoyed complete liberty; the marshal allowed his guests to do as they pleased, provided that no noise reached the wing of the château occupied by his wife.
He was rich, and two years later he died, leaving all his fortune to his widow.... One after another Madame de la Houssaye introduced to us at least twenty persons, the most of whose names, unfortunately, I have forgotten. I kept notes, but have mislaid them....
"This is a most welcome book, full of information and amusement, in the form of memoirs, comments, and anecdotes. It has the style of light literature, with the usefulness of the gravest. It should be in every library, and the hands of every reader." Boston Commonwealth. Home Journal. By ARSENE HOUSSAYE. With beautifully-engraved Portraits of Voltaire and Mad. Parabère.
She told me she was engaged to the young Count Louis le Pelletrier de la Houssaye, and I, with some change of color, told her of Abner. One day Madelaine's aunt, the Countess de Ségur, came to take her to spend the day at her palace.
His plays possess the same defects as his novels, being diffuse, devoid of incident and overloaded with unnecessary details. But the clearness and vigor of the style, the strong sense and daylight intelligence that reign in all his writings, prevent his poorest works from being commonplace or uninteresting. Arsène Houssaye, like his almost un-namable contemporary Belot, is the Laureate of Vice.
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