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Updated: May 24, 2025
But what is unendurable is my babble" And herewith our nimble little woman hops off again into the general field of things; and gossips largely, How are you, my queen, Whither are you going, Whither we; That the Maillebois people are away, and also the Villeneuves, if anybody knew them now; then how the Estillacs, to the number of four, are coming to-morrow; and Cousin Soquence, for all his hunting, can catch nothing; and it is a continual coming and going; and how Boursoufle is to be played, and a Dame Dufour is just come, who will do a character.
And they do, at least, change the General of their Middle-Rhine Army, that is to say, recall Prince Conti out of Italy, where he has distinguished himself, and send Maillebois thither in his stead, who likewise distinguishes himself THERE, if that could be a comfort to us!
This time the patron was M. de Maillebois, and the tribunal the Academy of Sciences.
It marches towards Osnabruck, this Maillebois Army; quarters itself up and down, looking over into Hanover, able to eat Hanover, especially if joined by the Prussians and Old Leopold, at any moment.
Only Three practicable Passes in it; difficult each, and each conducting you towards more new difficulties, on the farther side; not surmountable except by the determined mind. Maillebois and Saxe, after survey, shoot leftwards to Eger; draw food and reinforcement from the Garrison there.
After which are Mountain-passes; Bohemian Forest: and the Event ? "Cannot be dubious!" thinks France, whatever Maillebois think. Witty Paris, loving its timely joke, calls him Army of Redemption, "L'ARMEE DES MATHURINS," a kind of Priests, whose business is commonly in Barbary, about Christian bondage: how sprightly!
Marshal Maillebois was at Dusseldorf, commissioned to observe the Hollanders and protect Westphalia; he received orders to join Marshals Broglie and Belle-Isle. "It is the army of redemption for the captives," was the saying at Paris.
This sudden glimpse of Gaston Cheverny lying ill in a miserable garret in Prague, when I supposed him on the personal staff of Marshal Maillebois, did not prevent me from taking all possible measures to save that quarter of the town from burning, and striving to allay the panic. Both I found almost impossible. The old house blazed like tinder, the flames reddening the moonlit sky.
Angry belike at the Adventure now forced on him, and harassed with many things; seeing in the Imperial Majesty little but an unfortunate Play-actor Majesty, who lives in furnished lodgings paid for by France, and gives France and Maillebois an infinite deal of trouble to little purpose.
Rubrics, vanished Shadows, nearly all those high Dames and Gentlemen; LA PAUVRE Saint-Pierre, "eaten with gout," who is she? I almost think we must have got to Saturday by this time: or perhaps it is only Thursday, and Maillebois off prematurely, to be out of the way of the Farce? "Yesterday Madame du Chatelet got into her third lodging: she could not any longer endure the one she had chosen.
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