"Memoires inedits de Madame de....." (I am not allowed to give the author's name).
The type in high relief of one of these prelates a few years before the Revolution may here be found.

He was bishop of Narbonne, with an income of 800,000 livres derived from the possessions of the clergy.

He passed a fortnight every other year at Narbonne, and then for six weeks he presided with ability and propriety over the provincial parliament at Montpellier.

But during the other twenty-two months he gave no thought to any parliamentary business or to his diocese, and lived at Haute Fontaine with his niece, Madame de Rothe, of whom he was the lover.
Madame de Dillon, his grand-niece, and the Prince de Guemenee, the lover of Madame de Dillon, lived in the same chateau.

The proprieties of deportment were great enough, but language there was more than free, so much so that the Marquise d'Osmond, on a visit, "was embarrassed even to shedding tears....