The Marechale de Rochefort was in this way the friend of Mesdames de la Valliere, de Montespan, and de Soubise; and she became the friend of Madame de Maintenon, to whom she attached herself in proportion as she saw her favour increase.

She had, at the marriage of Monseigneur, been made Dame d'Atours to the new Dauphiness; and, if people were astonished at that, they were also astonished to see her lady of honour to an "illegitimate grand-daughter of France." The Comtesse de Mailly was Dame d'Atours.

She was related to Madame de Maintenon, to whose favour she owed her marriage with the Comte de Mailly.

She had come to Paris with all her provincial awkwardness, and, from want of wit, had never been able to get rid of it.

On the contrary, she grafted thereon an immense conceit, caused by the favour of Madame de Maintenon.