The court of Louis XV

A list of volumes is headed Famous Women of the French Court and is marked as from the French of Imbert de Saint-Amand. The list names, among others, Citizeness Bonaparte, The Wife of the First Consul and The Court of the Empress Josephine, under a heading of three volumes on the Empress Josephine. D'Argenson did not doubt the sincerity of his master's remorse, and says that the death of Madame de Vintimille will bring back the King to the practice of religion.

The Marquis is furious at having been duped, and exclaims that the King has dismissed Madame de Mailly in order to take her sister, Madame de la Tournelle. The author of the Siècle de Louis XV. says it has been thought that it would have been very easy to prevent such misfortunes by coming to terms with the English concerning a small contested ground near Canada. The text says the Bishop was always one of the party when the young King was working, or pretending to work, with his Ministers, and that the Queen herself was jealous of the confidence enjoyed by this silent old man who followed the King like his shadow.