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Twenty-two thousand Swedes penetrated into Prussian Pomerania, took the towns of Anclam and Demmin, and laid the whole country under contribution. The army of the empire, reinforced by that of prince Soubise, after many delays, was at last in full march to enter Saxony; and this motion left the Austrians at liberty to turn the greatest part of their forces to the reduction of Silesia.
"They have le pour" says the Journal Historique for the year 1694, page 6; "which means that the courier who marks the billets puts 'pour' before their names as, 'Pour M. le Prince de Soubise; instead of which, when he marks the lodging of one who is not royal, he does not put pour, but simply the name as, 'Le Duc de Gesvres, le Duc de Mazarin." This pour on a door indicated a prince or a favourite.
The prince de Soubise, with a ready grace and obliging manner, for which I shall ever remember him with a grateful recollection, endeavoured to dispel my apprehensions as to the state of the king; but whilst I acknowledged the kindness of his intention, my heart refused all comfort in a case, which I too well knew was utterly hopeless.
The next morning, after my warm assault on the prince de Soubise, he profited by an audience which the duke requested at an unusual hour to introduce this negotiation of a new kind, and the details I give you of this scene are the more faithful, as the king gave them to me still warm immediately after the conversation had terminated.
Some days afterwards, the prince de Soubise, who also wished to give me his advice, did not attain the same success. It must be owned, that, for a man of the world, he went about it in a very clumsy way. He committed the extreme error of selecting mademoiselle Guimard as mediatrix between himself and me.
"It isn't a pity if he traced me by it," said Victoria. "But wait. I'll think of something." "He's riding down the dip. In a minute it will be too late," Saidee warned her. The girl lifted over her head the long string of amber beads she had bought in the curiosity shop of Jeanne Soubise. Wrapping it in her handkerchief, she began to tie the silken ends together.
A little while after the declaration of the marriage, the Duchesse de Ventadour and Madame de Soubise, her granddaughter, had been named, the one governess of the Infanta, the other successor to the office; and they were both to go and meet her at the frontier, and bring her to Paris to the Louvre, where she was to be lodged a little while after the declaration of my embassy: the Prince de Rohan, her son-in-law, had orders to go and make the exchange of the Princesses upon the frontier, with the people sent by the King of Spain to perform the same function.
Prince de Soubise: frivolous, insignificant being; of whom I have no portrait that is not nearly blank, and content to be so; though Herr von Geusau would have one, with features and costume to it, when he heard of the Beating at Rossbach, long after!
"Prince, I think you would have done better to have been the bearer of your own message. You know my station here, and would not have ridiculed me as she has done." M. de Soubise, much puzzled to know what she had said, asked me the question. "Why," I replied, "she said, that if I would follow your counsels, you would pay me for my condescension."
It contained the intelligence of the battle of Rosbach, which M. de Soubise sent her, with all the details. I heard her say to the Marechal de Belle-Isle, wiping her eyes, "M. de Soubise is inconsolable; he does not try to excuse his conduct, he sees nothing but the disastrous fortune which pursues him."
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