Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… in a small circle of dependent admirers, and Madame de Rochfort is high priestess for a small salary of credit. The Duchess of Choiseul, the only young one of these heroines, is not very pretty, but has fine eyes, and is a little model … phrases and thoughts, so attentive and goodnatured! Everybody loves it, but its husband, who prefers his own sister the Duchesse de Grammont,39 an Amazonian, fierce, haughty dame, who loves and hates arbitrarily, and is detested. Madame de …
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