It is true that Madame du Barry was selected from a class sufficiently low.

Her origin, her education, her habits, and everything about her bore a character of vulgarity and shamelessness; but by marrying her to a man whose pedigree dated from 1400, it was thought scandal would be avoided.

The conqueror of Mahon conducted this coarse intrigue.
[It appeared at this period as if every feeling of dignity was lost.

"Few noblemen of the French Court," says a writer of the time, "preserved themselves from the general corruption.

The Marechal de Brissac was one of the latter.