Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV

Madame du Barry separates from madame de Bearn--Letters between these ladies--Portrait of madame de l’Hôpital--The ladder--The bell--Conversation with madame de Mirepoix--First...

The princesses consent to the presentation of madame du Barry-- Ingenious artifice employed by the king to offer a present to the duc de la Vauguyon--Madame du Barry's letter re...

La Martinière causes the king to be removed to Versailles--The young prophet appears again to madame du Barry--Prediction respecting cardinal de Richelieu--The joiner's daughter...

My alarms--An _éléve_ of the _Pare-aux-Cerfs_--Comte Jean endeavours to direct the king's ideas--A supper at Trianon--Table talk--The king is seized with illness--His conversati...

The Comte de la Marche, a prince of the blood--Madame de Beauvoir, his mistress--Madame du Barry complains to the prince de Soubise of the princess de Guémenée--The king console...

First proceedings of the council--The dauphin receives the prelates with great coolness--Situation of the archbishop of Paris--Richelieu evades the project for confessing the ki...

Interview with the joiner's daughter--Consultation of the physicians respecting the king--The small-pox declares itself--the comte de Muy--The princesses--Extreme sensibility of...

A few words respecting Jean Jacques Rousseau--The comtesse du Barry is desirous of his acquaintance--The countess visits Jean Jacques Rousseau--His household furniture--His port...

Unpublished letter of Louis XV--Madame du Barry's cousin, M. de Maupeou--The comtesse du Barry saves the life of a young girl seduced by the arts of the curé of her village--She...

give you an account of an equally strange affair, in nearly the same words as Louis XV himself related it to me. Altho' strongly recommended by my sister-in-law and M. de Sartin...

Fête given by the comtesse de Valentinois--The comtesse du Barry feigns an indisposition--Her dress--The duc de Cossé--The comte and comtesse de Provence--Dramatic entertainment...

Intrigue of the comtesse d'Egmont with a shopman--His unhappy fate--The comtesse du Barry protects him--Conduct of Louis XV upon the occasion--The young man quits France--Madame...

Madame du Barry purchases the services of Marin the gazetteer--Louis XV and madame de Rumas--M. de Rumas and the comtesse du Barry--An intrigue--_Denouement_--A present upon the...

Unpublished letter of Voltaire to madame du Barry--Reply of the countess--The maréchale de Mirepoix--Her first interview with madame du Barry--Anecdote of the diamonds of madame...

Dorine--Mademoiselle Choin and the maréchal d'Uxelles--Zamor--M. de Maupeou's wig--Henriette--The duc de Villeroi and Sophie--Letter from the comtesse du Barry to the duc de Vil...

All my friends were not treacherous as the duc de Villeroi; and I may gratefully assert I have possessed many true and sincere ones who have ever faithfully adhered to my fortun...

A slight preface--Arrival at Versailles--_"La toilette"_--Portrait of the king--The duc de Richelieu--The marquis de Chauvelin--The duc de la Vauguyon-Supper with the king--The...

A third letter from the duke--The king receives extreme unction--Letter from madame Victoire to the dauphin--M. de Machault--A promenade with the duc de Cossé--Kind attention fr...

Conversation of the maréchale de Mirepoix with the comtesse du Barry on court friendship--Intrigues of madame de Bearn--Preconcerted meeting with madame de Flaracourt---Rage of...

Baron d'Oigny, general post-master--The king and the countess read the opened letters--The disgrace of de Choiseul resolved upon--_Lettre de cachet _--Anecdote--Spectre of Phili...

The comte de la Marche and the comtesse du Barry--The countess and the prince de Condé--The duc de la Vauguyon and the countess--Provisional minister--Refusal of the secretarysh...

Conclusion of this affair--A letter from the incognita--Her examination--Arrest of Cabert the Swiss--He dies in the Bastille of poison--Madame Lorimer is arrested and poisoned--...

The king of Denmark--The courtesans of Paris--The duc de Choiseul and the bishop of Orleans--Witty repartees of the king of Denmark--His visit to madame du Barry--"The court of...

The comtesse and the duc d'Aiguillon--M. de Soubise--Louis XV and the duc d'Aiguillon--Letter from the comtesse to the king--Answer of the king-The "_Nouvelles a la Main_"--The...

Madame du Barry succeeds in alienating Louis XV from the due de Choiseul--Letter from madame de Grammont--Louis XV--The chancellor and the countess--Louis XV and the abbé de la...

The duc d'Aiguillon--The duc de Fronsac--The duchesse de Grammont--The meeting--Sharp words on both sides--The duc de Choiseul--Mesdames d'Aiguillon--Letter from the duc d'Aigui...

The duc de la Vauguyon and the comtesse du Barry--The marquis de Chauvelin and the comtesse--M. de Montbarrey and the comtesse-- Intrigues--Lebel--Arrival of the du Barry family...

Journey to Choisy--The comtesse du Barry and Louis XV--The king of Denmark--The czar Peter--Frederick II--The abbé de la Chapelle--An experiment--New intrigues--Secret agents-Th...

Have you any curiosity to learn the dénouement of the story I was telling you of my anonymous correspondent? Read what follows, then, and your wishes shall be gratified: that is...

Conversation with the king--Marriage of the comte d'Artois-- Intrigues--The place of lady of honor--The maréchale de Mirepoix--The comtesse de Forcalquier and madame du Barry--T...

A prefatory remark--Madame Brillant--The maréchale de Luxembourg's cat--Despair of the maréchale--The ambassador, Beaumarchais, and the duc de Chaulnes--the comte d'Aranda--Loui...

One day, at an hour at which I was not accustomed to see any person, a lady called and requested to see me; she was informed that I was visible to no person. No matter, she pers...

The king's message--Letter from the countess--A second supper at Versailles--The duc d’Ayen--A short account of M. de Fleury--The duc de Duras--Conversation with the king--The n...

When is the presentation to take place?--Conversation on this subject with the king--M. de Maupeou and M. de la Vauguyon--Conversation on the same subject with the king and the...

"I will write and put them off. Morand alone must dine with Lebel; he ought to have a place at the feast which he furnishes with such good music. Come, my dear girl, we touch th...

Marriage of madame Boncault--The comte de Bourbon Busset--Marriage of comte d'Hargicourt--Disgrace of the comte de Broglie--He is replaced by M. Lemoine--The king complains of e...

The king's friends--The duc de Fronsac--The duc d'Ayen's remark--Manner of living at court--The marquis de Dreux –Brézé--Education of Louis XV--The _Parc-aux-Cerfs_--Its househo...

The chevalier de la Morlière--Portrait of the duc de Choiseul--The duc de Choiseul and the comtesse du Barry--No reconciliation effected--Madame du Barry and the duc d'Aiguillon...

A word concerning the duchesse de Choiseul--The apartment of the Comte de Noailles--The Noailles--Intrigues for presentation--The comte de Bearn--M. Morand once more--Visit of t...

The duc d'Aiguillon brings an order for the immediate departure of madame du Barry--The king's remarks recapitulated--The countess holds a privy council--Letter to madame de Mir...

The comtesse de Bearn--The supper--Louis XV--Intrigues against my presentation--M. de Roquelaure--The scalded foot--The comtesse d'Aloigny--The duc d'Aiguillon and madame de Bea...

Of the presentation--The king and the duc de Richelieu at comtesse du Barry's--M. de la Vauguyon--Conversation--Letter of the duke to the comtesse du Barry--Reply--The countess...

On hearing an order given in this manner a stranger might have supposed the king crazy, and not intent on imprisoning a miserable libeller. I interceded in his favor, but Louis...

M. D----n and madame de Blessac--Anecdote--The rendezvous and the Ball--The wife of Gaubert--They wish to give her to the king-- Intrigues--Their results--Letter from the duc de...

Perhaps no person ever entertained so great a dread of death as Louis XV, consequently no one required to be more carefully prepared for the alarming intelligence so abruptly co...

"My much esteemed friend,--I promised you upon your departure to inform you of all that transpired, and although the task is a mournful one, I will do my best to acquit myself w...

Extraordinary anecdote of Louis XIV and madame de Maintenon--The comtesse du Barry at Chantilly--Opinion of king and comte de la Marche respecting the "Iron Mask"--Madame du Bar...