My partner was Mademoiselle de Sourches, daughter of the Grand Prevot; she danced excellently.

I had been that morning to wait on Madame, who could not refrain from saying, in a sharp and angry voice, that I was doubtless very glad of the promise of so many balls--that this was natural at my age; but that, for her part, she was old, and wished they were well over.
A few days after, the contract of marriage was signed in the closet of the King, and in the presence of all the Court.

The same day the household of the future Duchesse de Chartres was declared.

The King gave her a first gentleman usher and a Dame d'Atours, until then reserved to the daughters of France, and a lady of honour, in order to carry out completely so strange a novelty.

I must say something about the persons who composed this household.
M.de Villars was gentleman usher; he was grandson of a recorder of Coindrieu, and one of the best made men in France.