Take care your conduct does not force me to alter my mind.
Whereupon I pray God, cousin, to have you in His holy and worthy keeping." The thunderbolt which came striking the Duke of Choiseul called forth a fresh sign of the times.

The fallen minister was surrounded in his disgrace with marks of esteem and affection on the part of the whole court.

The princes themselves and the greatest lords felt it an honor to pay him a visit at his castle of Chanteloup.

He there displayed a magnificence which ended by swallowing up his wife's immense fortune, already much encroached upon during his term of power.

Nothing was too much for the proud devotion and passionate affection of the Duchess of Choiseul: she declined the personal favors which the king offered her, setting all her husband's friends the example of a fidelity which was equally honorable to them and to him.