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For, as she had already suggested with remarkable foresight to the Maréchale de Noailles the Court of Turin was then in mourning, and there would have been a necessity to conform to the French custom, followed by the Dukes of Savoy: on the contrary, by stopping at Villefranche and meeting the Queen at the moment of her embarkation, she would merely have to observe the usage of Spain, which only enjoined mourning upon the master and mistress of a house.
This was the name of an estate which Voltaire had, and which he sometimes assumed. Unpublished letter of Voltaire to madame du Barry Reply of the countess The marechale de Mirepoix Her first interview with madame du Barry Anecdote of the diamonds of madame de Mirepoix The king pays for them Singular gratitude of the marechale The portfolio, and an unpublished letter of the marquise de Pompadour
Your horses and people are at the end of the street; I request you to mount and leave the town, or to send me back to Madame la Marechale, for I am responsible for your limbs, which you expose so freely."
However giddy I was I did not partake in the excessive gaiety of madame de Mirepoix. I was pained to see how little reliance could be placed on the sensibility of the king, as well as how far I could esteem the consideration of the marechale for madame de Pompadour, from whom she had experienced so many marks of friendship.
When we had conversed together for some minutes, I besought of him to leave the place as early as possible; "Take madame de Forcalquier with you," said I, "your presence just now at Trianon would be too much commented upon." He made some difficulties in obeying me, but I insisted and he went. After his departure, the duc de Richelieu, the marechale and myself walked together in the garden.
"No, my friend." "Who then is the object of so much regret? Speak; tell me." "Madame Brillant." "A friend of the old marechale 's?" "More than a friend," replied madame de Mirepoix; "her faithful companion; her only companion; her only beloved object, since her lovers and admirers ceased to offer their homage in a word, her cat." "Bless me!" cried I, "how you frightened me!
Now, I think I cannot do better than make him the bearer of my inquiries after the marechale de Luxembourg." This idea struck me as highly amusing, and I immediately dispatched a servant to summon M. de la Chevrollerie to the presence of the king.
About this time died the Marechale de la Meilleraye, aged eighty-eight years. She was the paternal aunt of the Marechal de Villeroy and the Duc de Brissac, his brother-in-law. It was she who unwittingly put the cap on MM. de Brissac, which they have ever since worn in their arms, and which has been imitated.
After a short silence, she said she should like to see her women. I rose, sent them to her, and said to them, if her Royal Highness asked for me, I should be with the Duchesse Sforze, or the Marechale Rochefort; but I could find neither of these two ladies, so I went up to Madame. She rose as soon as I appeared, and said to me, with eagerness, "Well, Monsieur, what news?"
Terror of the king A complication Filial piety of the princesses Last interview between madame du Barry and Louis XV Conversation with the marechale de Mirepoix The chancellor Maupeou The fragment Comte Jean
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