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Barry--No reconciliation
effected--Madame du Barry and the duc d'Aiguillon--Madame du Barry
and Louis XV
CHAPTER XXIII
Dorine--Mademoiselle Choin and the marechal d'Uxelles--Zamor-- M.
de Maupeou's wig--Henriette--The duc de Villeroi and Sophie-- Letter
from the comtesse du Barry to the duc de Villeroi--His reply--The
countess writes again--Madame du Barry and Sophie-- Louis XV and
the comtesse du Barry
CHAPTER XXIV
The prince des Deux Ponts--Prince Max--The dauphin and Marie
Antoinette--The comtesse du Barry and Bridget Rupert--The countess
and Genevieve Mathon--Noel--Fresh amours--Nocturnal adventure--
Conclusion of this intrigue
CHAPTER XXV
Madame du Barry succeeds in alienating Louis XV from the due de
Choiseul--Letter from madame de Grammont--Louis XV--The
chancellor and the countess--Louis XV and the abbe de la Ville--The
marechale de Mirepoix and madame du Barry
CHAPTER XXVI
Baron d'Oigny, general post-master--The king and the countess read the
opened letters--The disgrace of de Choiseul resolved upon-- cachet >--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of the king--The marechale de Mirepoix- Unpublished letter from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