ONE:The applause with which she was welcomed on entering the salon so overcame her that she burst into tears. Next day those of her friends who had survived the Revolution began to flock to see her. Her old friend, Mme. Bonneuil, was among the first, and invited her to a ball the following night given by her daughter, now the celebrated beauty, Mme. Regnault de Saint-Jean-d¡¯Angely, to which she went in a dress made of the gold-embroidered India muslin given her by the unfortunate Mme. Du Barry.Her farm near the Baltic did not altogether satisfy Mme. de Tess¨¦, and before long they again moved, to be in the neighbourhood of a residence she had heard of, and hoped to get after a time.
TWO:For the former reason she spent some time at Raincy, [25] then the residence of the Duke of Orl¨¦ans, father of Philippe-¨¦galit¨¦, where she painted his portrait, and that of his morganatic wife, Mme. de Montesson. While she was there the old Princesse de Conti came one day to see Mme. de Montesson, and much to her surprise always addressed Mme. Le Brun as ¡°Mademoiselle.¡± As it was shortly before the birth of her first child, this rather startled her, and she then recollected that it [62] had been the custom in former days for grandees of the court so to address their inferiors. It was a survival that she never met with but upon this occasion, as it had quite come to an end with Louis XV. Mme. Le Brun never cared to stay at Raincy, which she found uncongenial; but she delighted in several of the other chateaux where she stayed, above all in Chantilly, where the Prince de Cond¨¦ gave the most magnificent f¨ºtes, and where the grandeur of the chateau and the beauty of the gardens, lakes, and woods fascinated her.
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TWO:¡°Yes; and there is nothing in his appearance to justify your horror.¡±
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TWO:¡°The same evening I found on my table a [314] letter carefully enclosed in a double envelope, addressed¡ª
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TWO:The brothers of Napoleon came to see the pictures of Mme. Le Brun, which Lucien especially greatly admired.She was as happy at Vienna as she could be [121] anywhere under the circumstances. During the winter she had the most brilliant society in Europe, and for the summer she had taken a little house at Sch?nbrunn, near the Polignac, in a lovely situation, to which she always retired when Vienna became too hot, and where she took long solitary walks by the Danube, or sat and sketched under the trees.
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