The chevalier de la Morlière--Portrait of the duc de Choiseul--The duc de Choiseul and the comtesse du Barry--No reconciliation effected--Madame du Barry and the duc d'Aiguillon--Madame du Barry and Louis XV XXIII Dorine--Mademoiselle Choin and the maréchal d'Uxelles--Zamor--M. de Maupeou's wig--Henriette--The duc de Villeroi and Sophie--Letter from the comtesse du Barry to the duc de Villeroi--His reply--The countess writes again--Madame du Barry and Sophie--Louis XV and the comtesse du Barry XXIV The prince des Deux Ponts--Prince Max--The dauphin and Marie Antoinette--The comtesse du Barry and Bridget Rupert--The countess and Geneviève Mathon--Noël--Fresh amours--Nocturnal adventure--Conclusion of this intrigue XXV Madame du Barry succeeds in alienating Louis XV from the due de Choiseul--Letter from madame de Grammont--Louis XV--The chancellor and the countess--Louis XV and the abbé de la Ville--The maréchale de Mirepoix and madame du Barry XXVI Baron d'Oigny, general post-master--The king and the countess read the opened letters--The disgrace of de Choiseul resolved upon--_Lettre de cachet _--Anecdote--Spectre of Philip II, king of Spain--The duc de Choiseul banished--Visits to Chanteloup--The princesses--The dauphin and dauphiness--Candidates for the ministry XXVII The comte de la Marche and the comtesse du Barry--The countess and the prince de Condé--The duc de la Vauguyon and the countess--Provisional minister--Refusal of the secretaryship of war--Displeasure of the king--The maréchale de Mirepoix--Unpublished letter from Voltaire to Madame du Barry--Her reply XXVIII A few words respecting Jean Jacques Rousseau--The comtesse du Barry is desirous of his acquaintance--The countess visits Jean Jacques Rousseau--His household furniture--His portrait--Thérèse--A second visit from madame du Barry to Jean Jacques Rousseau--The countess relates her visit to the king--Billet from J. J. Rousseau to madame du Barry--The two duchesses d'Aiguillon XXIX The king's friends--The duc de Fronsac--The duc d'Ayen's remark--Manner of living at court--The marquis de Dreux--Brézé--Education of Louis XV--The _Parc-aux-Cerfs_--Its household--Its inmates--Mère Bompart--Livres expended on the _Parc-aur-Cerfs_--Good advice--Madame XXX Fête given by the comtesse de Valentinois--The comtesse du Barry feigns an indisposition--Her dress--The duc de Cossé--The comte and comtesse de Provence--Dramatic entertainment--Favart and Voisenon--A few observations--A pension--The maréchale de Luxembourg--Adventure of M. de Bombelles--Copy of a letter addressed to him--Louis XV--M. de Maupeou and madame du Barry XXXI Madame du Barry purchases the services of Marin the gazetteer--Louis XV and madame de Rumas--M. de Rumas and the comtesse du Barry--An intrigue--_Dénouement_--A present upon the occasion--The duc de Richelieu in disgrace--100,000 livres XXXII