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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 1 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
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135.] [Footnote 1439: Mme.

de Pompadour, writing to Marshal d'Estrees, in the army, about the campaign operations, and tracing for him a sort of plan, had marked on the paper with mouches (face-patches), the different places which she advised him to attack or defend." Mme.

de Genlis, "Souvenirs de Felicie," p.329.Narrative by Mme.

de Puisieux, the mother-in-law of Marshal d'Estrees.] [Footnote 1440: According to the manuscript register of Mme.

de Pompadour's expenses, in the archives of the prefecture of Versailles, she had expended 36,327,268 livres.


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