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The comte de la Marche and the comtesse du Barry The countess and the prince de Conde The duc de la Vauguyon and the countess Provisional minister Refusal of the secretaryship of war Displeasure of the king The marechale de Mirepoix Unpublished letter from Voltaire to Madame du Barry Her reply
Madame de Valentinois came to me with tears in her eyes to repeat the cruel remark of the princess; the marechale de Mirepoix, who heard her, sought to console her by assurances, that it would in no degree affect her interest at court. "Never mind, my good friend," said she; "the pretty bird merely warbles the notes it learns from its keeper la Vauguyon, and will as quickly forget as learn them.
The Duc de La Vauguyon, the young Dauphin's governor, infected them with the same prejudices. Such was the state of the public mind when the young Archduchess Marie Antoinette arrived at the Court of Versailles, just at the moment when the party which brought her there was about to be overthrown.
In this equipage they made an excursion upon the country till they came near to the Vauguyon, which is the valley of Guyon, and to the spital, but could never find anybody to speak unto; whereupon they returned a little back, and took occasion to pass above the aforesaid hospital to try what intelligence they could come by in those parts.
They surrounded her with spies; they even spread a report that Louis had begun to see through and to distrust her, in the hope that, when it should reach the king's own ears, it might perhaps lay the foundation of the alienation which it pretended to assert; and they grew the bolder because the king's next brother was about to be married to a Savoyard princess, of whose favor De la Vauguyon flattered himself that he was already assured.
The Duc de La Vauguyon, the young Dauphin's governor, infected them with the same prejudices. Such was the state of the public mind when the young Archduchess Marie Antoinette arrived at the Court of Versailles, just at the moment when the party which brought her there was about to be overthrown.
Duc d'Aiguillon; d'Angoulême; de Brissac; de Chartres; de Choisseu; de Coigny; de la Feuillade; de Maine; de la Vauguyon; de Liancourt; d'Orléans; de Richelieu. Dugazon, Madame. Duke of Brunswick; of Normandy; Paul of Russia; of Tarouka. Dumont, M. Dumouriez, General, character of; and the queen; resigns his position as minister, and takes command of the army.
My sister-in-law, to whom I showed this correspondence, said to me, "This gentleman does not come to see you for your bright eyes; and yet his visit is not disinterested." "What interest can he have to serve?" "None of his own, perhaps; but those villainous Jesuits." "Don't you like them, sister of mine?" "I hate nobody." M. de la Vauguyon arrived; and as soon as we were alone, he said to me,
One day, a long time after this, meeting, in a gallery, at Fontainebleau, M. de Courtenay, La Vauguyon drew his sword, and compelled the other to draw also, although there had never been the slightest quarrel between them. They were soon separated and La Vauguyon immediately fled to the King, who was just then in his private closet, where nobody ever entered unless expressly summoned.
On the day of his death she ran in tears to relate to the Queen the piety, humility, and repentance of the last moments of the Duc de La Vauguyon. He had called his people together, she said, to ask their pardon.
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