[132] Née dans une condition obscure, vouée au libertinage dés sa plus tendre jeunesse, autant par goût que par état, Made. Du Barry ne put offrir à son auguste amant, malgré la fleur de la jeunesse et les brillants appas dont elle étoit encore pourvue, que les restes de la plus vile canaille, de la prostitution." Vie privée des maîtresses de Louis XV., p. 153.--"You are no doubt curious to hear an opinion of Madame Du Barri's beauty from the lips of one who has seen her both in her days of prosperity and after her downfall. She was a person of small, almost diminutive stature, extremely frail and delicate in feature, which saved her from being vulgar; but even from the first, she always wore that peculiarly _fane_ look which she owed to a youth of dissipation, a maturity of unbounded indulgence. At the period of my visit she was about thirty-six years of age, but, from her child-like form and delicacy of countenance, appeared much younger, and her _gambades_ and unrestrained gestures of supreme delight on having, as she said, _quelqu'un à qui parler_, did not seem displaced. Although alone, and evidently not in expectation of visitors, her toilet was brilliant and _recherché_, the result of the necessity of killing time."--"Talleyrand Papers." [133] Espion de la Cour. [134] Gazetier Cuirassé, ou Anecdotes Scandaleuses de la Cour de France. [135] In his "_Praxis Medica Admiranda_," wherein he also gives the formula of an electuary _ad excitandum tentiginem nulli secundum_, p, 295, Observ. XCI., as well as a recipe for pills ad _Coitûs ignaviam_, CXIII., p. 297. [136] Encyclopœdia Parthensis, Article Cachunde. [137] See his Premier Traité de l'homme et de son essentielle anatomie, avec les éléments et ce qui est en eux, de ses maladies, médicine et absolus remèdes, etc., Paris, 1588. [138] Cent. 2. [139] See Celius, lib. xiv., cap. 3. [140] Histoire de Ferdinand et Isabelle, Tom. II., 326. Paris, 1766. [141] Biographie Universelle, Art. Wallenstein. [142] Detested by the Parisians, Dubois was the object of innumerable caricatures, of which the most _sanglante_ was one representing him "à genoux aux pieds d'une fille de joie qui prenait de ce sale écoulement qui afflige les femmes, tous les mois, pour lui en rougir sa calotte et le faire Cardinal." See Erotika Biblion. Paris, 1792, p. 52. [143] Mémoires du Cardinal Dubois, vol. I., p. 3. [144] Ælius Tetrabilis, I., Disc. Chap. 32 and 33. [145] Browne's Travels in Africa, etc., p. 343. [146] La génération de l'homme, ou tableau de l'amour conjugal. Tom. 1., p. 276. [147] Ibid., p. 232. [148] Venette, Génération de l'homme, Tom. I., p. 279.