Memoirs of Madame la Marquise d

ident Gonthier.-The Indemnity.-The Salmon.-T

show herself at Saint Germain, or at Versailles, from time to time, as her rank, her near kinship, her birth demanded. He said to me one day: "My cousin is beginning to look up. I see with pleasure that her complexion is clearing, th

eine, those woods full of broad walks, of light and air, those points of view happily chosen and arranged, gave a charming effect; the house of one story, raised on

rsal agreement has made us Highnesses, we must know how to car

of her remoteness from the world, and on

d the King, "you must have a hundred

and nine,"

ty?" went on the King. "It is the P

ld house which no longer exists,

for the ground. I was assured that poor President Gonthier had only got rid of his house at Choisy because his

e bit her l

nd first; my men of business offe

rich; she pretended not to hear, and it was M. Colbert who

red; she pointed out to us in her winter salon the portrait of the little Comte de Toulouse, painted, not as an admiral, but as God of the Sea, floating on a pearl shell; and his brother, the Duc

vately, I saw that she was taking away the portrait of Lauzun. I went a

two years old,

its was served us, to which the King prayed h

ve not noticed the portrait of Gaston, your father; is

e later," she answer

ded the King. "You do n

ather at the head of these various pictures, I should have to put my stepmother, his wife, there too, as a necessary pe

irritation, she begged me to arbitrate myself; and you know all that M. Colbert and the Chancellor did to satisfy you under the circumstances. But let us speak of something else, and cease these discussions. I have a service to ask of yo

nd beautiful; he can only do honour to my livery; I grant it him with all my heart, sin

no reply to them, but he understood all that he was me

offer it to Mademoiselle; the presence of the King inspired them with another design. They wove with great diligence a large and pretty bask

e evidently improvised, so that they gave more pleasure and effect than those o

to your generals. You arrive on the Monday; on the Tuesday the town is taken. We

anscribed; and, after having bountifully reward

younger, I would place him in a college. Th