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Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis (Volume 1); Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis (Volume 1); Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ... villiers, the Count de la Marche, afterwards Prince of Conti, who died in Spain; he was blunt, but obliging; he was at once odd and insipid--a character of which he is the only example that I have ever seen. From time to time I went, as I have said, to dine or sup with my grandmother, who behaved still with the same coldness to me. One day, when we arrived too early for dinner, we found nobody in the room but her sister, Mademoiselle Dessaleux, my grand-aunt, who was an excellent person. My grandmother was from home, and was not to return till the hour of dinner. Mademoiselle Dessaleux proposed showing me my grandmother's private cabinet, which was full of fine pictures and engravings; first, I looked at an enormous picture representing my grandmother in her youth, and her son, then an infant, who was afterwards killed at Minden; Madame de la Haie had been much celebrated for her beauty, but I was struck only with the affectation of the portrait; my grandmother was represented as Venus, and her son as Cupid. I looked longer at a charming little picture exquisitely painted, the subject of which was Europa; and I remarked in it a pretty idea; the bull, who is carrying her off, turns round his head, as if to kiss the pretty little naked foot of Europa. I said, I thought Europa handsome but too fat; Mademoiselle Dessaleux smiled, and said, that it was not an historical picture, but a portrait of Madame de Berry, daughter of the regent; she further told me that the princess, during her amour with the late Marquis de la Haie, the husband of my grandmother, had caused this portrait to be painted for him, and had herself presented it to him. I thought in my own mind that if M. de la Haie's mistress had been only a private individual, my austere grandmother would h...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153886567
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153886561
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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