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Title: Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Louis XV. and XVI.

Author: Madame du Hausset an "Unknown English Girl" and Princess Lamballe
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #7561]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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QUOTES AND IMAGES: MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. AND XVI.

MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XV. & XVI.

By Hausset and Princess Lamballe

A liar ought to have a good memory

Air of science calculated to deceive
the vulgar

And scarcely a woman; for your answers
are very short

Bad habit of talking very indiscreetly
before others

Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans

Because he is fat, he is thought dull
and heavy

Can make a Duchess a beggar, but cannot
make a beggar a Duchess

Canvassing for a majority to set up
D'Orleans

Clergy enjoyed one-third the national
revenues

Clouds--you may see what you please in
them

Danger of confiding the administration
to noblemen

Dared to say to me, so he writes

Dead always in fault, and cannot be put
out of sight too soon

Declaring the Duke of Orleans the
constitutional King

Do not repulse him in his fond moments

Educate his children as quietists in
matters of religion

Embonpoint of the French Princesses

Fatal error of conscious rectitude

Feel themselves injured by the favour
shown to others

Few individuals except Princesses do
with parade and publicity

Foolishly occupying themselves with
petty matters

Frailty in the ambitious, through which
the artful can act

French people do not do things by
halves

Fresh proof of the intrigues of the
Jesuits

He who quits the field loses it

Honesty is to be trusted before genius

How difficult it is to do good

I dared not touch that string

Infinite astonishment at his sharing
the common destiny

It is an ill wind that blows no one any
good

Judge of men by the