Identifier: madamedubarry00will (find matches)
Title: Madame Du Barry
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel), 1870-1925
Subjects: Du Barry, Jeanne Bécu, comtesse, 1743-1793
Publisher: London and New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ain building was prolonged by a gallery ofconsiderable length, which was used as an orangery, andat the end of this was a chapel.- The visit of the Court to Compiegne did not terminatewithout an unpleasant incident, occasioned by the con-tinued hostility of Choiseul to the new favourite. For the purpose of giving the Dauphin and his brotherssome instruction in military matters, a pleasure camp was formed at Verberie, in the plain of Royal-Lieu, underthe command of Baron WUrmser, Lieutenant-Generaland Chief-Inspector of the German infantry regiments inthe French service. The manoeuvres, which lasted threedays, were witnessed by Louis XV., his three grandsons,Mesdames—and Madame du Barry; and Dumouriez,who had known the lady in the days when she presided Louis Hercule Timoleon de Cosse, Due de Brissac (i734-1792),the penultimate lover of Madame du Barry.- Histoire de Madame du Barry, i. 264. 92 MADAME DU BARR^ AS EUROPA From n Pniiithig in fiouth Kensington Museum by An Unknown Artist
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MADAME DU BARRY over the menage of the Rou^, and had lately returnedfrom Germany, was profoundly shocked at the sight ofthe old King of France degrading himself by standingwith doffed hat beside a magnificent phaeton, in whichthe Du Barry was reclining.^ Among the troops assembled at Verberie was theRegiment de Beauce, in which Elie du Barry, youngerbrother of Jean and Guillaume, held a commission. Anexchange of civilities took place between the favourite andthe officers of her brother-in-laws regiment ; the officersinvited Madame du Barry to dine in the camp, and she, inher turn, entertained them to a magnificent banquet. In-deed, so excellent an understanding prevailed that when, onthe last day of the manoeuvres, the favourites carriagepassed down the line, the Chevalier de la Tour-du-Pin, thecolonel of the Regiment de Beauce, thought that he coulddo no less than order his men to present arms, an honourhitherto expressly reserved on these occasions for theKing and members of the Roy

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