CHAPTER IX

The title by which the count was usually known: that of the countess was madame.

St. Simon, 1709, ch. v., and 1715, ch. i, vols. vii. and xiii., ed. 1829.

Ibid., 1700, ch xxx., vol. ii., p. 469.

Arneth, ii, p. 206.

Madame de Campan, ch. iv.

Madame de Campan, ch. v., p. 106.

Id., p. 101.

"Sir Peter. Ah, madam, true wit is more neatly allied to good-- nature than your ladyship is aware of."--School for Scandal, act ii., sc. 2.