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共 38 段- For a couple of centuries there had resided at Bar-sur-Aube,
- Louis XV. gave the commission to the crown jewellers, Böhmer
- “The banns of marriage had been published at Fontette, which
- The Countess de la Motte was woman of the world enough to kn
- It must have been about this period that the countess, haras
- Again, at the very last, only a few hours before her head wa
- About three weeks after the delivery of his written justific
- “The poor girl was dressed and adorned like a shrine.... Jud
- The De la Mottes spend several weeks at Bar-sur-Aube, give g
- After reading this letter the cardinal longed for wings; sti
- The Countess de la Motte, who it will be remembered had form
- After consulting with their most pressing creditors, Böhmer
- “Let us return now to the thirteen diamonds I had left with
- Primed with these equivocal instructions, the crown jeweller
- On proceeding thither, the grand almoner found the king and
- The Countess de la Motte was arrested, it will be remembered
- At the head of the enemies the queen had succeeded in making
- From here she could overlook her grotto and the group of art
- The abbé directed his attention to the state prosecution, in
- On being asked to account for the opulence which she was kno
- The zeal of the Abbé Georgel here carried him a little too f
- Every time she was called upon to explain some circumstance
- Whether these accusations are true or false, we have no mean
- “I need not tell you, my dear sister, how indignant I feel a
- Arrived there on the 18th of May, Count de la Motte tells us
- “‘You are earnestly exhorted to keep up your spirits, and to
- “We sat down to supper, and I told our guide that we did not
- “M. de la Motte printed five thousand ‘Mémoires’ in French a
- “This same Riston, who a year previously was in the toils of
- But little is known of the future careers of the countess’s
- The count of course does as he is bid, and what is most surp
- For this evident neglect of her duty as executrix, it was ma
- M. Louis Blanc dwells upon the fact of Madame de la Motte ha
- The _procès verbal_ in question is drawn up in the quaint le
- Jean-Charles-Vincent de Bette d’Étienville, bourgeois of Sai
- [85] “Confrontation du Cardinal avec le Père Loth.” The latt
- [277] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” p
- _In 2 vols., Square 8vo. Handsomely Bound, 25s._