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Updated: June 4, 2025
Read, now, a striking contrast to the short but sympathizing billet of madame d'Aiguillon, in the following heartless letter f rom the marechale de Mirepoix, which was put into my hands as I was ascending the carriage. "MY LOVELY COUNTESS, I am all astonishment! Can it be possible that you are to quit Versailles?
"Detain you and your shallop for the services of my master, the King of England, soon to be the master of your master, if the signs are right." "All signs fail with the blind, monsieur." "I will give you good reading of those signs in due course," retorted I. "Monsieur," he added, with great, almost too great dignity, "I am of the family of the Duc de Mirepoix.
Madame du Barry succeeds in alienating Louis XV from the due de Choiseul Letter from madame de Grammont Louis XV The chancellor and the countess Louis XV and the abbe de la Ville The marechale de Mirepoix and madame du Barry Matters now assumed an air of importance.
Read what follows, then, and your wishes shall be gratified: that is, if you have patience to hear a rather long story; for I cannot promise you that mine will very speedily be completed. Let me see: where did I leave off? Oh, I recollect. I was telling you that madame de Mirepoix urged me to repair, as I was requested, to the Baths of Apollo.
Disquieted at one and the same time by the philosophical tendencies which were beginning to spread in men's minds, and by the comptroller-general Machault's projects for exacting payment of the imposts upon ecclesiastical revenues, the Archbishop of Paris, Christopher de Beaumont, and the Bishop of Mirepoix, Boyer, who was in charge of the benefice-list, conceived the idea of stifling these dangerous symptoms by an imprudent recourse to the spiritual severities so much dreaded but lately by the people.
I was fully of her opinion, and only asked her assistance and co-operation in my plan of writing to M. de Rumas, and inviting him to come on the following day to the house of madame de Mirepoix.
"I am delighted to hear this," replied madame de Mirepoix, "but, my dear soul, let me caution you against too implicitly trusting these deceitful appearances, to-morrow may destroy these flattering hopes, and the next day " "Indeed!" cried I, interrupting her, "the physicians answer for his recovery." "And suppose they should chance to be mistaken," returned my cautious friend, "what then?
Madame de Mirepoix said to Madame, "Be assured, the King cares very little about children; he has enough of them, and he will not be troubled with the mother or the son. See what sort of notice he takes of the Comte de I , who is strikingly like him. He never speaks of him, and I am convinced that he will never do anything for him.
"If that hypocritical Bishop," said she, speaking of the Bishop of Mirepoix, "had not prevented the King from granting him a pension of four hundred louis a year, which he had promised me, he would never have been appointed Ambassador. I should, afterwards, have been able to give him an income of eight hundred louis a year, perhaps the place of master of the chapel.
The medical men then departed, accompanied the duc de Richelieu. La Martiniere causes the king to be removed to Versailles The young prophet appears again to madame du Barry Prediction respecting cardinal de Richelieu The joiner's daughter requests to see madame du Barry Madame de Mirepoix and the 50,000 francs A < soiree > in the salon of madame du Barry
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