Madame de Sévigné has noted down the details of this merry frolic. Madame de Bouillon arrived in a coach drawn by six horses, seated between her husband and her lover, followed by twenty other coaches, packed full of the smartest noblemen and daintiest ladies of the Court. The Marquis de la Fare confirms this account: 'The Duchess de Bouillon made a proud and confident appearance before the judges, accompanied by all her friends, who were in large numbers, and a most distinguished crowd.' 'Madame de Bouillon entered the Chambre like a little queen,' says Madame de Sévigné; 'she sat down on a chair prepared for her, and instead of replying to the first question, she asked that what she wanted to say might be written down: which was, that she only came there out of respect for the king; she had none at all for the Chambre, which she did not recognise; and that she did not mean to allow any derogation to the ducal privilege.' (This privilege consisted in the right of not being tried except by all the courts united in Parlement.) 'She would not say a word till that was written down, and then she took off her glove and showed a very beautiful hand. She replied honestly enough until her age was asked. '"Do you know La Vigoureux?" '"No." '"Do you know La Voisin?" '"Yes." '"Why do you wish to do away with your husband?" '"I do away with him? Why, you have only to ask him if he thinks so; he gave me his hand to this very door." '"But why did you go so often to La Voisin's house?" '"I wanted to see the Sibyls she promised to show me; that company would be well worth all my journeys." 'She was asked if she had not shown the woman a bag of money. She said "No," and for more than one reason, and this she said with a very mocking and disdainful air. '"Well, gentlemen, is that all you have to say to me?" '"Yes, madam." 'She rose and said aloud as she went out, "Really, I should never have believed that clever men could ask so many silly questions." 'She was received by all her friends and relatives with adoration, she was so pretty, naïve, natural, bold, so pleasant in appearance and so quiet in mind.' One of the replies she made to La Reynie, who asked her if she had really seen the devil at the sorceress's, was: 'I see him now: he is ugly, old, and disguised as a councillor of state.' This soon got abroad outside the Chambre, and set all Paris and the Court in good humour.