king and the countess read the opened letters--The disgrace of de Choiseul resolved upon--
--Anecdote--Spectre of Philip II, king of Spain--The duc de Choiseul banished--Visits to Chanteloup--The princesses--The dauphin and dauphiness- Candidates for the ministry
CHAPTER XXVII
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Provisional minister--Refusal of the secretaryship of war--Displeasure of the king--The marechale de Mirepoix- Unpublished letter from Voltaire to Madame du Barry--Her reply
CHAPTER XXVIII
A few words respecting Jean Jacques Rousseau--The comtesse du Barry is desirous of his acquaintance--The countess visits Jean Jacques Rousseau--His household furniture--His portrait--Therese--A second visit from madame du Barry to Jean Jacques Rousseau--The countess relates her visit to the king--Billet from J. J. Rousseau to madame du Barry--The two duchesses d'Aiguillon
CHAPTER XXIX
The king's friends--The duc de Fronsac--The duc d'Ayen's remark-- Manner of living at court--The marquis de Dreux--Breze--Education of Louis XV--The --Its household--Its inmates-- Mere Bompart--Livres expended on the -- Good advice--Madame
CHAPTER XXX
Fête given by the comtesse de Valentinois--The comtesse du Barry feigns an indisposition--Her dress--The duc de Cosse--The comte and comtesse de Provence--Dramatic entertainment--Favart and Voisenon--A few observations--A pension--The marechale de Luxembourg--Adventure of M. de Bombelles--Copy of a letter addressed to him--Louis XV--M. de Maupeou and madame du Barry
CHAPTER XXXI
Madame du Barry purchases the services of Marin the gazetteer --Louis XV and madame de Rumas--M. de Rumas and the comtesse du Barry--An intrigue----A present upon the occasion--The duc de Richelieu in disgrace--100,000 livres
CHAPTER XXXII
A prefatory remark--Madame Brillant--The marechale de Luxembourg's cat--Despair of the marechale--The ambassador, Beaumarchais, and the duc de Chaulnes--the comte d'Aranda--Louis XV and his relics--The abbe de Beauvais--His sermons--He is appointed bishop
CHAPTER XXXIII
M. D----n and madame de Blessac--Anecdote--The rendezvous and the Ball--The wife of Gaubert--They wish to give her to the king-- Intrigues--Their results--Letter from the duc de la Vrilliere to the countess--Reply-Reconciliation
CHAPTER XXXIV
Conversation with the king--Marriage of the comte d'Artois-- Intrigues--The place of lady of honor--The marechale de Mirepoix-- The comtesse de Forcalquier and madame du Barry--The comtesse de Forcalquier and madame Boncault
CHAPTER XXXV
Marriage of madame Boncault--The comte de Bourbon Busset --Marriage of comte d'Hargicourt--Disgrace of the comte de Broglie--He is replaced by M. Lemoine--The king complains of ennui--Conversations on the subject--Entry into Paris
CHAPTER XXXVI
Visit from a stranger--Madame de Pompadour and a Jacobinical monk--Continuation of this history--Deliverance of a state prisoner--A meeting with the stranger
CHAPTER XXXVII
A conspiracy--A scheme for poisoning madame du Barry--The four bottles--Letter to the duc d'Aiguillon--Advice of the ministers-- Opinion of the physicians--The chancellor and lieutenant of police--Resolution of the council
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Conclusion of this affair--A letter from the --Her Examination--Arrest of Cabert the Swiss--He dies in the Bastille of poison--Madame Lorimer is arrested and poisoned---The innocence of the Jesuits acknowledged--Madame de Mirepoix and the 100,000 francs--Forgetfulness on the part of the lieutenant of police--A visit from comte Jean--Madame de Mirepoix
CHAPTER XXXIX
My alarms--An of the --Comte Jean endeavours to direct the king's ideas--A supper at Trianon-- Table talk--The king is seized with illness--His conversation with me--The joiner's daughter and the small-pox--My despair-- Conduct of La Martiniere the surgeon
CHAPTER XL.
La Martiniere causes the king to be removed to Versailles--The young prophet appears again to madame du Barry--Prediction respecting cardinal de Richelieu--The joiner's daughter requests to see madame du Barry--Madame de Mirepoix and the 50,000 francs--A in the salon of madame du Barry
CHAPTER XLI
Interview with the joiner's daughter--Consultation of the physicians respecting the king--The small-pox declares itself--the comte de Muy--The princesses--Extreme sensibility of madame de Mirepoix--The king is kept in ignorance of his real condition--The archbishop of Paris visits Versailles
CHAPTER XLII
First proceedings of the council--The dauphin receives the prelates with great coolness--Situation of the archbishop of Paris-- Richelieu evades the project for confessing the king--The friends of madame du Barry come forward--The English physician--The abbe Terray--Interview with the prince de Soubise--The prince and the courtiers--La Martiniere informs the king of France the true nature of his complaint--Consequences of this disclosure
CHAPTER XLIII
Terror of the king--A complication--Filial piety of the princesses-- Last interview between madame du Barry and Louis XV--Conversation with the marechale de Mirepoix--The chancellor Maupeou--The fragment--Comte Jean
CHAPTER XLIV
The duc d'Aiguillon brings an order for the immediate departure of madame du Barry--The king's remarks recapitulated--The countess holds a privy council--Letter to madame de Mirepoix and the ducs de Cosse and d'Aiguillon--Night of departure--Ruel--Visit from madame de Forcalquier
CHAPTER XLV
The duc d'Aiguillon's first letter--The marechale de Mirepoix --A second letter from the duc d'Aiguillon--Numerous visitors
CHAPTER XLVI
A third letter from the duke--The king receives extreme unction-- Letter from madame Victoire to the dauphin--M. de Machault--A promenade with the duc de Cosse--Kind attention from the prince des Deux Pouts--A fourth letter from the duc d'Aiguillon--Comte Jean bids me farewell--M. d'Aiguillon's fifth letter, containing an account of the death of Louis XV--The duc de la Vrilliere--The --Letter to the queen--Departure for the abbey of
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