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general, and intendants to follow her also, and serve her, though
she travelled incognito.

The new Queen of Spain, on arriving at Pau, found the
Queen Dowager, her aunt, had come expressly from Bayonne
to meet her. As they approached each other, they both de-
scended at the same time, and after saluting, mounted alone
into a beautiful caliche that the Queen Dowager had brought
with her, and that she presented to her niece. They supped
together alone. The Queen Dowager conducted her to Saint
Jea.n Pied-de-Port (for in that country, as in Spain, the entrances
to mountain passes are called ports). They separated there,
the Queen Dowager'making the Queen many presents, among
others a garniture of diamonds. The Due de St. Aignan joined
the Queen of Spain at Pau, and accompanied her by command
of the King to Madrid. She sent Grillo, a Genoese noble, whom
she has since made grandee of Spain, to thank the King for
sending her the Due de St. Aignan, and for the present he
brought with him. The officers of her household had been
named by Madame des Ursins.

The Queen of Spain advanced towards Madrid with the at-
tendants sent to accompany her. She was to be met by the
King of Spain at Guadalaxara, which is about the same distance
from Madrid as Paris is from Fontainebleau. He arrived there,
accompanied by the attendants that the Princesse des Ursins
had placed near him, to keep him company, and to allow no
one else to approach him. She followed in her coach, so as to
arrive at the same time, and immediately afterwards he shut
himself up alone with her, and saw nobody until he went to
bed. This was on the 22nd of December. The next day the
Princesse des Ursins set out with a small suite for a little place,
seven leagues further, called Quadraqud, where the Queen was
to sleep that night. Madame des Ursins counted upon enjoying
all the gratitude that the Queen would feel for the unhoped-for
grandeur she had obtained by her means; counted upon passing
the evening with her, and upon accompanying her next day to
Guadalaxara. She found, upon arriving at Quadraque, that
the Queen had already reached there. She at once entered into

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