The Queen invited her to the table, and herself motioned to her women to leave the room, and let the men take their places.

Her Majesty said she was resolved to continue a privilege which kept places of that description most honourable, and render them suitable for ladies of nobility without fortune.

Madame de Misery, Baronne de Biache, the Queen's first lady of the chamber, to whom I was made reversioner, was a daughter of M.le Comte de Chemant, and her grandmother was a Montmorency.

M.le Prince de Tingry, in the presence of the Queen, used to call her cousin.

The ancient household of the Kings of France had prerogatives acknowledged in the state.