Their so-called marriage took place in 1768, and writing in that year he speaks of the five-and-twenty years of their attachment (_Ib._ v.

323), and in the _Confessions_ (ix.

249) he fixes their marriage at the same date; also in the letter to Saint-Germain (vi.

152).

Musset-Pathay, though giving 1745 in one place (i.