ONE:See Madame, people go also to pay their court to Mme. Le Brun. They must certainly be rendezvous which they have at her house.Mme. de Genlis, finding Paris too dear, moved to Versailles where she lived for a time, during which she had the grief of losing her nephew, Csar Ducrest, a promising young officer, who was killed by an accident.
FORE:The Abbess might receive in her apartment and at dinner whatever guests she chose, men or women, but no men might go to the cloisters or any other part of the abbey. She had a carriage, horses, and servants of her own, and might go out when and where she pleased, taking with her any nuns she chose. She often drove to see different farms, &c., belonging to the abbey, and to visit sick people.
FORE:Society was much larger here than at St. Petersburg, where it seemed almost to form one family, every one being related to each other.
