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THREE:So little did the idea of love enter into her life that until after her marriage she had never read a single novel. Then she read ��Clarissa Harlowe,�� by way of a beginning, and found it intensely interesting. Before, she only read Lives of the Saints, and various religious or instructive books. FORE:[451]D��Alembert, one of the leading encyclop?dists, like most of them, intensely vain, and about whose origin nothing was known, claimed to be the illegitimate son of the Marquise de Tencin, of scandalous reputation. Mme. de Cr��quy, in her ��Souvenirs,�� scorns the idea, saying also that much of the evil spoken of Mme. de Tencin was untrue; but it is certain that many dark and mysterious rumours clung to the h?tel Tencin, the garden of which extended over what is now the rue de la Paix. Originally intended for the cloister, Mlle. de Tencin refused to take the vows at Grenoble, and was a conspicuous figure in the wild orgies of the Regency. An intimate friend of the notorious John Law, then controller-general of finance, she succeeded, partly by his influence, in getting her brother made Cardinal and Archbishop of Embrun, and during his lifetime did the honours of his h?tel, where, during the days of his power, John Law was a leading spirit. Fortunes were lost and won there in a night, but darker secrets than those of the gambling table were whispered concerning the h?tel Tencin, its inhabitants and guests. More than ordinary scandals, even in the days of the Regent Orl��ans and his shameless daughters, were circulated, and even the murder of one of her lovers was so far believed that Mme. de Tencin was arrested, though shortly afterwards acquitted.

THREE:The French Ambassador, Count d��Esterhazy, said that he would come at ten and take her to d��jeuner with his wife, who was just then living at Czarskoiesolo. For the first time during her wandering life from court to court, Lisette felt intimidated, and trembled. This was so different from any of her former experiences. At every other court she had been en pays de connaissance. Austrian society was very like Parisian, Rome was the centre of Christendom, the sovereigns of the lesser Italian states were the near relations of her own King and Queen, their religion was the same. FORE:

THREE:Those who were going to their death, dined [328] cheerfully for the last time with their companions, and bade them a brave and cheerful farewell. FORE:

THREE:However, the predictions were fulfilled. Mme. de Marigny, after many misfortunes, died young. The Comte de Flahault was guillotined during the Terror, and the Comtesse escaped with her son to England, where she lived in great poverty in a village near London, until a friend of hers, the Marquis ����, also an emigr��, suggested to her that she should write a novel. That same night she began ��Ad��le de Senanges,�� which she sold for ��100 to a publisher in London, and after which she continued by her writing to support herself and [44] educate her boy at a good English school. When she returned to France she lived at a small h?tel in an out-of-the-way part of Paris until she married M. de Souza, the Portuguese Ambassador.Venice was crowded with foreigners, amongst whom was one of the English princes; and Lisette��s friend, the Princesse Joseph de Monaco, whom she saw for the last time, she also being on her way to France, where she met her death. FORE:He persevered accordingly, passed safely through the Revolution, and was a favourite court painter during the Empire and Restoration.