His wife, beautiful, with the form of a goddess--notorious for the number of her gallantries--was very intimate with the Princess de Conti.

The King, not liking such a companion for his daughter, gave the Duc de Choiseul to understand that the public disorders of the Duchess offended him.

If the Duke would send her into a convent, the Marechal's baton would be his.
The Duc de Choiseul, indignant that the reward of his services in the war was attached to a domestic affair which concerned himself alone, refused promotion on such terms.

He thus lost the baton; and, what was worse for him, the Duchess soon after was driven from Court, and so misbehaved herself, that at last he could endure her no longer, drove her away himself, and separated from her for ever.
Mademoiselle la grande Mademoiselle, as she was called, to distinguish her from the daughter of Monsieur--or to call her by her name, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, died on Sunday the 5th of April, at her palace in the Luxembourg, sixty-three years of age, and the richest private princess in Europe.

She interested herself much in those who were related to her, even to the lowest degree, and wore mourning for them, however far removed.