Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… had attained such a superiority.—I wonder no longer, and have a little more respect for English heads than I had. The women do not seem of the same country: if they are less gay than they were, they are more informed, enough to make them … was banished, and la Marechale inherited part of the mistress's credit.—I must interrupt m y history of illustrious women with an anecdote of Monsieur de Maurepas, with who m I a m much acquainted, and wh o has one of the few heads that … wo was in England, is a savante, mistress of the Prince of Conti, and very desirous of being his wife. She is two women, the upper and the lower. I need not tell you that the lower is galante, and still has pretensions. The upper is …
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