Some of them amused themselves with giving a particular account of their wives' personal defects.

An imprudent word, addressed to Louis XV., and applicable only to the Queen, instantly dispelled all the mirth of the entertainment.

The King assumed his regal air, and knocking with his knife on the table twice or thrice, 'Gentlemen; said he, 'here is the King!' "Those men who are most completely abandoned to dissolute manners are not, on that account, insensible to virtue in women.

The Comtesse de Perigord was as beautiful as virtuous.

During some excursions she made to Choisy, whither she had been invited, she perceived that the King took great notice of her.