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ONE:Mme. de Genlis made a great display of disinterestedness, she refused the 20,000 francs a year offered her by the Duke as governess to his children, declaring that she would educate them for nothing; she refused also the diamonds sent by the Duke and Duchess as a wedding present to her daughter, neither of which refusals there was the slightest occasion to make, but theatrical, unnecessary things were always what she preferred to do. And at the same time she and her family were becoming very rich. Of course her books, bought by all her friends at court, in society, and everywhere, brought her a good deal, but she always had money for everything she wanted. She was promised for her eldest daughter on her marriage, her own former place at the Palais Royal, and a regiment for her son-in-law, her relations were placed and provided for, and she, of course, lived in state and luxury with the Orl¨¦ans children, amongst whom her own were educated.NICE TWO:
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ONE: TWO:Never, would Mme. Le Brun say in after years, could she forget or describe the feelings with which she drove across that bridge to find herself at the other side¡ªsafe, free, and out of France.
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ONE:The noblesse d¡¯ep¨¦e was the highest, most brilliant, and most scandalous in France; but in its ranks were to be found heroic examples and saintly characters; while far away in the convents and chateaux scattered over the country and in quiet bourgeois families in the towns lives were led of earnest faith, devotion, and self-denial. TWO:Mme. Le Brun painted the portrait first of Madame Ad¨¦la?de, then of Madame Victoire.
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ONE:The next day they left Zug. M. de Chartres went to Coire, in the Engadine, where for fifteen months he gave lessons in mathematics in a college under an assumed name, while Mme. de Genlis and her two charges took refuge in a convent near the little town of Bremgarten, where they were admitted through M. de Montesquieu, another of the radical nobles obliged to flee from the tender mercies of his radical friends, of whom they had heard through M. de Montjoye, now living with his relations in Bale, when he had paid them a visit. TWO:The two sisters had not met since the interview at the inn during the triumphal progress of the La Fayette. It was a mercy that Pauline had not believed in their Utopia nor taken their advice. Even now Adrienne was only exchanging one [252] prison for another, for she was shortly going to Austria to obtain leave to share that of La Fayette.I have endeavoured to be accurate in all the dates and incidents, and have derived my information from many sources, including the ¡°M¨¦moires de Louis XVIII., recueillis par le Duc de D¡ª¡ª,¡± M¨¦moires de la Comtesse d¡¯Adh¨¦mar, de Mme. Campan, MM. de Besenval, de S¨¦gur, &c., also the works of the Duchesse d¡¯Abrant¨¨s, Comtesse de Bassanville, Mme. de Cr¨¦quy, Mme. de Genlis, Mme. Le Brun, MM. Ars¨¨ne Houssaye, de Lamartine, Turquan, Dauban, Bouquet, and various others, besides two stories never yet published, one of which was given me by a member of the family to which it happened; the other was told me in the presence of the old man who was the hero of it.
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ONE: TWO:
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