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The Hotel de Rambouillet has been called the "cradle of polished society," but the personality of its hostess is less familiar than that of many who followed in her train. This may be partly due to the fact that she left no record of herself on paper. She aptly embodied the kind advice of Le Brun.
Attracting, at the age of 20, the attention of a noble patron, he became, in 1647, and remained for the next 24 years, attached to the household of Mlle. de Montpensier. He was a favoured guest among the Precieuses of the Hotel Rambouillet, and was styled, for his acquired air of bon ton, the Voiture of Caen. In 1671 he was received by Mlle. de La Fayette. No. 63. Saturday, May 12, 1711. Addison.
Her taste for society was of the same order. Her variable and sparkling genius would have broken loose from the formal conversations and rather studied brilliancy that had charmed her youth at the Hotel de Rambouillet. The onerous duties of a perpetual hostess would not have suited her temperament, which demanded its hours of solitude and repose.
Immediately they were painted out, and, for the sum of nine hundred and fifty francs, another artist was found who filled the frames of the medallions with sights and scenes associated less intimately with Napoleonic history. Under the Empire the architect Famin was commissioned to furnish a series of architectural embellishments to the gardens of Rambouillet.
The king shrugged his shoulders with a peevish gesture, but after a moment's hesitation, during which he looked first at Retz and then at M. de Rambouillet, he signed to the Marquis to approach. 'Why have you brought him here? he muttered sharply, looking askance at me. 'He should have been bestowed according to my orders.
M. de Sully and M. Crillon, with the Marquis de Rambouillet and his nephew, and my distant connection, the Duke de Rohan, who first acknowledged me on that day, were among those who earned my gratitude by attending me upon the occasion.
Mmes. de Sablé and de Rambouillet were called the arbiters of elegance and good taste. To her friends, Mme. de Sablé was always accommodating and showed no partiality; well informed, she was constantly approached for counsel and favors; discreet and trustworthy, the most important secrets were intrusted to her—a confidence which she never betrayed.
Cowed by my manner, he obeyed, and led the way to the room in which M. de Rambouillet had surprised us on a former occasion. Here he stopped at the door and knocked gently; on which a sharp voice inside bade us enter. I raised the latch and did so, closing the door behind me.
The Bayonne and Rambouillet Decrees Fouché Replaced by Savary Abdication of King Louis Conduct of Louis and Lucien Holland Incorporated into the Empire Napoleon's Relatives Untrue to his Interests French Empire at its Greatest Extent The Continental System as Perfected Discontent in Russia and in Sweden.
The question sounded artless. Dacier answered that he thought he had seen her somewhere once, and Diana shut her lips on a rising under-smile. 'She is the coeur d'or of our time; the one soul I would sacrifice these flowers to. 'A bit of a blue-stocking, I think I have heard said. 'She might have been admitted to the Hotel Rambouillet, without being anything of a Precieuse.
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