ONE:��She was preceded by a cross-bearer between two acolytes bearing tall candles, and followed by a dozen assistants, with veils down and crossed hands; all the lay sisters of the abbey were ranged round their ladies in large grey capes, carrying lighted torches in those beautiful gothic lanterns, with the arms of the royal abbeys emblazoned in stained glass, which are used in processions at night round the cloisters. Never in modern romances have I seen anything so [373] romantic and picturesque as that nocturnal scene. FORE:Therefore he encouraged and promoted the marriages of his officers with the penniless daughters of the old families; therefore he sent the only sister who was young enough to the school of Mme. Campan, formerly femme de chambre to Marie Antoinette, and gave that clever, astute woman his support and approbation.On one occasion the Duc de Richelieu so far departed from his usual habit as to recommend to the Duc de Fronsac a lad who bore a strong resemblance to himself, begging him to give him a post in his household and look after him. Fronsac, struck with jealousy of this prot��g�� of his father��s, did all he could to corrupt and ruin him, taught him to be a gambler and reprobate, and finally led [379] him into collision with himself in some love intrigue, challenged him to a duel, and killed him.

ONE:��You know. I want liberty.��[448] FORE:She and Mme. de la Fayette used also to visit the prisons, which in those days required no little courage, owing to the squalor, cruelty, and misery with which they were thus brought into contact.THE year 1788 was the last of the old r��gime. Mme. Le Brun was now thirty-two and at the height of her fame and prosperity. She had more commissions than she could execute, more engagements than she could keep, more invitations than she could accept, but her mind was full of gloomy presentiments. She passed the summer as usual between Paris and the country houses where she stayed.

ONE:In an agony of terror Pauline sprang out of the carriage and implored him to tell her the worst, for she could bear it.He returned in time to save the emigr��, but not himself.

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THREE:They all boarded at the La Fayette, but as they were very poor there was very little to eat. They would dine upon ?ufs �� la neige, and spend the evening without a fire, wrapped in fur cloaks to keep out the cold of the early spring. M. de Montagu always had declared he had only had one good dinner in Holland, and that was one night when he dined with General Van Ryssel.

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ONE:When first he succeeded to the throne and the question arose who was to be prime minister, Madame Victoire wrote to Louis XVI., recommending M. de Machault, then exiled from Paris.

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THREE:Society of the Palais Royal��Philippe-��galit����An Apparition��Mlle. Mars��M. Ducrest��Marriage of Mme. de Montesson��Marly��The Prime Minister of France.

ONE:Flight and danger��Mons��Zurich��Zug��The Convent of Bremgarten��Death of M. de Sillery��Of ��galit����Mademoiselle d��Orl��ans and the Princesse de Conti.He carried on an open liaison with the Countess Woronsoff, while Catherine, who regarded him with dislike and repugnance, consoled herself with Prince Soltikoff, the hero of Russia from his victory over Frederic the Great, King of Prussia, and then with Prince Stanislas Poniatowski.

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For some years T��r��zia continued to live at Paris, [345] where she had witnessed so many transformations and passed through the extremes of prosperity and adversity.

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CHAPTER VII��We! friends! Allons donc!��

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