[43].  “Gustave III,” by Geffroy, II. 37. — Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 81.

[44].  George Sand, I. 58-60.  A narration by her grandmother, who, at thirty years of age, married M. Dupin de Francuiel, aged sixty-two.

[45].  Mme. de Genlis, “Souvenirs de Félicie,” 77. — Mme. Campan, III. 74. — Mme. de Genlis, “Dict. des Etiquettes,” I. 348.

[46].  See an anecdote concerning this species of royalty in “Adèle et Théodore, I. 69” by Mme. de Genlis. — Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 156:  “Women ruled then; the Revolution has dethroned them. . .  This gallantry I speak of has entirely disappeared.”

[47].  “Women in France to some extent dictate whatever is to be said and prescribe whatever is to be done in the fashionable world.”  ("A comparative view,” by John Andrews, 1785.)

[48].  Mme. d’Oberkirk, I. 299. — Mme. de Genlis, “Mémoires,” ch.  XI.

[49].  De Tilly, I. 24.

[50].  Necker, “Oeuvres complètes,” XV, 259.

[51].  Narrated by M. de Bezenval, a witness of the duel.

[52].  See especially:  Saint-Aubin, “Le bal paré,” “Le Concert;” — Moreau, “Les Elégants,” “La Vie d’un Seigneur à la mode,” the vignettes of “La nouvelle Héloise;” Beaudouin, “La Toilette,” “Le Coucher de la Mariée;” Lawreince, “Qu’en dit l’abbé? " — Watteau, the first in date and in talent, transposes these customs and depicts them the better by making them more poetic. — Of the rest, reread “Marianne,” by Marivaux; “La Vérité dans le vin,” by Collé; “Le coin du feu,” “La nuit et le moment,” by Crébillon fils; and two letters in the “Correspondance inédite” of Mme. du Deffant, one by the Abbé Barthélemy and the other by the Chevalier de Boufflers, (I. 258, 341.).

[53].  “Correspondence inédite de Mme. du Deffant,” published by M. de Saint-Aulaire, I. 235, 258, 296, 302, 363.

[54].  Mme. de Genlis, “Dict. des Etiquettes,” II. 38.  “Adèle et Théodore, I, 312, II, 350, — George Sand, “Histoire de ma vie,” I. 228. — De Goncourt, p. 111.

[55].  George Sand, I. 59.

[56].  “A comparative view,” etc., by John Andrews.

[57].  Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 15, 154.

[58].  Châteaubriand, I. 34. — “Mémoires de Mirabeau,” passim. — George Sand, I. 59, 76.

[59].  Comptes rendus de la société de Berry (1863-1864).

[60].  “Histoire de Troyes pendant la Révolution,” by Albert Babeau, I. 46.

[61].  Foissets, “Le Président des Brosses,” 65, 69, 70, 346. — “Lettres du Président des Brosses,” (ed.  Coulomb), passim. — Piron being uneasy concerning his “Ode à Priape,” President Bouhier, a man of great and fine erudition, and the least starched of learned ones, sent for the young man and said to him, “You are a foolish fellow.  If any one presses you to know the author of the offence tell him that I am.” (Sainte-Beuve, “Nouveaux Lundis,” VII. 414.)