The Duc De Lauzun
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Excerpt from The Duc De Lauzun: And the Court of Marie Antoinette Lauzun returns to Paris - The influenza - Lady Barrymore - Her acquaintance with Lauzun - The Queen´s partiality for the Comtesse Jules de Polignac - Mme. de Vaudreuil and Besenval - The Abbe de Vermond´s anxieties; Changes in manners - The taste for English ideas and habits - Races - Gambling - Opera-balls - Dress; Lauzun in favour - His political plans - He lays them before the Queen - Correspondence with Catherine of Russia - M. de Luxembourg´s schemes - Catherine proposes to Lauzun that he should enter her service - A conversation with the Queen - The heron feather - Lauzun visits Chanteloup - The affair of the Due de Guines - Dismissal of Turgot and Malesherbes - Necker as Finance Minister - M. de Saint-Germain at the War Office - Reforms - The Order of Perseverance - Death of the Prince de Conti; The Emperor Joseph II.´s visit - Its consequences; Lauzun´s debts - Difficulties with his wife and family - Generous offers from M. de Voyer and from Lady Barrymore - The Queen refuses to intervene - Arrangement with M. de Guemenee - Mme. de Guemenee slanders Mme. de Lauzun - Choiseul´s indignation - His interview with Mme. de Guemenco About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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