ow that.
It is only a variation.
In the Fualdes affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdes was "a Buonapartist." They designated the liberals as friends and brothers; this constituted the most deadly insult.
Like certain church towers, Madame de T.''s salon had two cocks. One of them was M. Gillenormand, the other was Comte de Lamothe-Valois, of whom it was whispered about, with a sort of respect:
"Do you know? That is the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace."
These singular amnesties do occur in parties.
Let us add the following:
in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised persons.
The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above this law, as above every other.
Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of?
No, because.
Du Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house of M. le Marechal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus.
Mercury and the Prince de Guemenee are at home there.
A thief is admitted there, provided he be a god.