Volume 1 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 1 (of 6) 60/62 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. |