amused, and her diversions must have an intellectual and
were alike welcome at Sceaux, if they amused her and entertained
said Mme. du Deffand, who was among the brightest ornaments of
of the next century, of which her little court.html">court was one of the
ten years, slightly deformed, with a fair face lighted by fine
conversation, witty, brilliant, adoring talent, but cherishing
superlative degree the passion for esprit which lent such
were as good as she is wicked," said the sharp-tongued Palatine,
during the day and passes it playing at cards, but at its close
husband.html">husband, her children, her servants, to such a point that they do
When forced to leave the Tuileries after the collapse of her
article of value in her apartments, consigning mirrors, vases,
might enjoy them after her. This fiery scion of a powerful
uncontrollable passions, and its colossal will, had little
amiable husband, and it is said she did not scruple to make him
to find yourself in the Academie Francaise, and the Duc d'Orleans
translated. Her device was a bee, with this motto: "I am small,
realized by those who belonged to the Ordre de la Mouche-a-miel
swear, by Mount Hymettus, fidelity and obedience to their
compensated by the bit of lemon-colored ribbon and its small meed
worked in vain. The conspiracy against the regent, which seemed
instrigante, who had the disposition to "set the four corners of
dispersed and herself in prison. But this was only an episode,
not quench her irrepressible ardor. If she could not rule in one
her little court was again her kingdom, and no sovereign ever
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