Lamothe-Langon, Etienne Leon, baron de, 1786-1864
"Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself"
She took
me really
, and I had not time to go and meet her.
"Madame la marechale," said I, accosting her, "what lucky chance
brings you to a place where the desire to have your society is so great?"
"It is the feeling of real sympathy," she replied, with a gracious
smile; "for I also have longed for a considerable time to visit
you, and have yielded to my wishes as soon as I was certain that
my advances would not be repulsed."
"Ah, madame.," said I, "had you seriously any such fear? That
tells me much less of the mistrust you had of yourself than of the
bad opinion you had conceived of me. The honor of your visits--"
"The honor of my visits! That's admirable! I wish to obtain a
portion of your friendship, and to testify to the king that I am
sincerely attached to him."
"You overwhelm me, madame," cried I, much delighted, "and I beg
you to give me your confidence."
"Well, now, all is arranged between us: I suit you and you please
me. It is long since I was desirous of coming to you, but we are
all under the yoke of the must absurd tyranny: soon we shall have
no permission to go, to come, to speak, to hold our tongues, without
first obtaining the consent of a certain family. This yoke has
wearied me; and on the first word of the chancellor of France I
hastened to you."
"I had begged him, madame, to express to you how much I should be
charmed to have you when the king graced me with his presence.
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