Horace Walpole: A memoir With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill Press
CHAPTER VII.
State of French Society in 1765.--Walpole at Paris.--The Royal Family and the Bête du Gévaudan.--French Ladies of Quality.--Madame du Deffand.--A Letter from Madame de Sévigné.--Rousseau and the King of Prussia.--The Hume-Rousseau Quarrel.--Returns to England, and hears Wesley at Bath.--Paris again.--Madame du Deffand's Vitality.--Her Character.--Minor Literary Efforts.--The _Historic Doubts_.--The _Mysterious Mother_.--Tragedy in England.--Doings of the Strawberry Press.--Walpole and Chatterton. 166