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"
My
, the chancellor of France, had remained to keep me
company instead of joining the party at Chantilly. ,
say you, and by what right or title could M. de Maupeou become
such? I will tell you. First of all he only aspired to the honor
of relationship, but afterwards, turning over the archives of his
family, he found the most incontestable proofs of his belonging
to the ancient families of the du Barry; and full of joy, he
hurried to me, unrolling at my feet his genealogical tree, to the
great amusement of comte Jean and my sisters-in-law, who, after
a long examination, declared that he was justly entitled to the
appellation of first cousin; from that period he always addressed
me , which I flattered him by returning whenever I was
in the humor.
About this period I was the happy instrument in saving from death
a young girl whose judges (as will be seen) were about to sentence
her to be hanged without fully understanding whether she were
innocent or guilty. This unfortunate creature was a young and
pretty country girl, whose worthy pastor, the cure de Liancourt,
had availed himself of the influence he possessed, and of the
advantages of his authority over the poor creature's mind, to
seduce her from the paths of virtue. Unfortunately, just at the
time when she expected to produce a living witness of their amour,
and when she trusted to the cares of the cure to procure for her
those comforts her unfortunate situation required, the author of
her shame was suddenly carried off by a violent death, and the
wretched girl, either thro' ignorance or the shame of having
listened to the illicit passion of a priest, neglected to make any
of those formal declarations required by the law, and gave birth
to a dead infant.
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