Memoirs
Memoirs
(tr by Lady Mary Loyd)
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d hat and a sword with knots of ribbon. Thus
accoutred, with powdered head and pigtail, I had to give several
performances of my minuet, which I danced with my sister Clementine,
both of us displaying all the airs and graces of bygone times. My
marquis's dress, of which I was excessively proud, served me also for a
fancy dress ball given by the Duchesse de Berri, at which, identifying
myself too much with my character, I had a quarrel with a Cossack of my
own age, young de B-- about a partner. In my fury I drew my sword, he
did likewise, and we were just falling on each other, when the Duchesse
rushed up crying, "Stop, you naughty children! Take their swords away,
M. de Brissac!" As for my sister Clementine, who was at the ball too,
wearing her minuet gown, and looking utterly bewitching in her powder
and her looped-up dress, she attracted the notice of Charles X., to whom
she doubtless brought back memories of his own youth. He came to her and
kissed her, and gazed at her for a long time, holding her hand. T
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