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Updated: May 31, 2025
On the 7th the Prince de Conti acquainted the Parliament with the reasons for his departure, and talked in general of the warnings he had received from different hands of a design the Court had formed against his life, adding that his brother could not be safe at Court as long as Tellier, Servien, and Lionne were not removed.
She is just what you would expect a weak American girl to be who was poisoned by Paris, who mistook what was most obvious for what was most characteristic, whose ideas of foreign society and female habits were based upon an experience of resorts, more renowned for ease than elegance, who has no instinct fine enough to tell her that a lionne cannot be a lady, who imitates the worst manners of foreign society, without the ability or opportunity of perceiving the best, who prefers a double entendre to a bon-mot, who courts the applause of men whose acquaintance gentlemen are careless of acknowledging, who likes fast driving and dancing, low jokes, and low dresses, who is, therefore, bold without wit, noisy without mirth, and notorious without a desirable reputation.
Madame de Lionne took her delight in the infinite variety of the human species. All the eyes in the drawing-room followed the departing officers, one strutting, the other striding, with curiosity. When the door had closed after them one or two men who had already heard of the duel imparted the information to the sylphlike ladies, who received it with little shrieks of humane concern.
It has been said it was our King's ambition that made him resolve to become the master of the world, and that it was for this he commenced the Dutch war; but I know from an indisputable source that it was entered upon only because M. de Lionne, then Minister of State, was jealous of Prince William of Furstenberg, who had an intrigue with his wife, of which he had been apprised.
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