MEMOIRS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMOK

complaisance, had the usual effect, which was to
spoil her. He was not long in perceiving it; but-
love was too strong for him. He found a woman proudL,
passionate, incapable of forgiveness, who despised
Mm, and who allowed him to see it, because he had infinitely
leas than she • and because, moreover, she was supremely

and strongly determined She piqued herself "upon both.
and on her contempt for religion, ridiculing M.
le Due de Berry for being devout; and all these things became
to him. Her gallantries were so prompt, so rapid,.
ao that he could not help seeing them. Her end-

leas interviews with ML le Due d'Orleans, in which:

if he was present, made him furious.
took place between them; the last,
at Ramboiullet, went so far that Madame la
de Beny received a kick * * * *, and a menace
she be up in a convent for the rest of her life ^

M. le Due de Berry fell ill, he was thumbing his hat,
a the King, relating aU his grievances, and

to be delivered from Madame la Duchesse de Berry.
I only alluded to Madame la Duchesse de Berry,,
but, as be seen, she became so singular a person when her
Regent^ that I will here make her known more com-
I yefc done.

handsome, well made, with, however, but little

something in her eyes which made you fear

she like her father and mother she spoke well and

Timid in trifles, yet in other things temfyingly

— sometimes, and sometimes mean to

tte —it be said that she was a model of all

the and was all the more dangerous

art talent I am not accustomed to over-

the I am obliged to present to render things

mad il will be perceived how strictly I ana

the upon all gallantries, not intimately

may be called important matters. I

be 10 in any other case, from self-love, if