Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… Her manner is cold, but very civil; and she conceals even the blood of Lorrain, without ever forgetting it. Nobody in France knows the world better, and nobody is personally so well with the King. She is false, artful, and insinuating … very superior understandings; some of them with wit, or with softness, or very good sense." … Correspondence … Women … France … Eloquence … Text taken from The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence (New Haven: Yale University …
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