Some weeks after their marriage the Comte de Genlis had to rejoin his regiment, which was at Nancy, and as it was then not the custom for officers wives to accompany them, and he thought Flicit too young to be left by herself at a court such as that of Louis XV., he decided to take an apartment for her at Origny, in a convent where he had relations, as people often did in such cases.
TWO:Most people at that time, like those before the flood, had no idea of the possibility of the coming destruction.Durufl, who did not like this sort of thing, hastened to sell the post he had been so anxious to get. [17]
TWO:There was at Versailles a certain Laboull, coiffeur to Louis XV., and to Marie Antoinette when the Dauphine. He invented a perfume which he called eau Antoinette, and which was so much in vogue that he opened a perfume shop at Versailles, which was patronised by Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette when they came to the throne. He married, and the Queen was very kind to his wife, whom she used to employ in her various charities; and was devoted to her.
THREE:Et comme le soleil, de saison en saison,I only care for power for the sake of mercy, she replied. But now I am not appealing to your clemency, but to your justice.
