her,
who, at thirty years of age, married M. Dupin de Francuiel, aged
sixty-two.]

[Footnote 2245: Mme. de Genlis, "Souvenirs de Felicie," 77.--Mme.
Campan, III. 74.--Mme. de Genlis, "Dict. des Etiquettes," I. 348.]

[Footnote 2246: See an anecdote concerning this species of royalty in
"Adele et Theodore, I. 69" by Mme. de Genlis.--Mme. Vigee-Lebrun, I.
156: "Women ruled then; the Revolution has dethroned them. . . This
gallantry I speak of has entirely disappeared."]

[Footnote 2247: "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.)]

[Footnote 2248: Mme. d'Oberkirk, I. 299.--Mme. de Genlis, "Memoires,"
ch. XI.]

[Footnote 2249: De Tilly, I. 24.]

[Footnote 2250: Necker, "Oeuvres completes," XV, 259.]

[Footnote 2251: Narrated by M. de Bezenval, a witness of the duel.]

[Footnote 2252: See especially: Saint-Aubin, "Le bal pare," "Le
Concert;"--Moreau, "Les Elegants," "La Vie d'un Seigneur a la mode,"
the vignettes of "La nouvelle Heloise;" Beaudouin, "La Toilette," "Le
Coucher de la Mariee;" Lawreince, "Qu'en dit l'abbe?"--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 Verite dans le vin," by Colle; "Le coin du feu,"
"La nuit et le moment," by Crebillon fils; and two letters in the
"Correspondance inedite" of Mme. du Deffant, one by the Abbe Barthelemy
and the other by the Chevalier de Boufflers, (I. 258, 341.).]

[Footnote 2253: "Correspondence inedite de Mme. du Deffant," published
by M. de Saint-Aulaire, I. 235, 258, 296, 302, 363.]

[Footnote 2254: Mme. de Genlis, "Dict. des Etiquettes," II. 38. "Adele
et Theodore, I, 312, II, 350,--George Sand, "Histoire de ma vie," I.
228.--De Goncourt, p. 111.]

[Footnote 2255: George Sand, I. 59.]

[Footnote 2256: "A comparative view," etc., by John Andrews.]

[Footnote 2257: Mme. Vigee-Lebrun, I. 15, 154.]

[Footnote 2258: Chateaubriand, I. 34.--"Memoires de Mirabeau,"
passim.--George Sand, I. 59, 76.]

[Footnote 2259: Comptes rendus de la societe de Berry (1863-1864).]

[Footnote 2260: "Histoire de Troyes pendant la Revolution," by Albert
Babeau, I. 46.]

[Footnote 2261: Foissets, "Le President des Brosses," 65, 69, 70,
346.--"Lettres du President des Brosses," (ed. Coulomb), passim.--Piron
being uneasy con