[118] Favart is said to have claimed that he had invented the bun. But, as several learned writers assert that it was in vogue in the time of the Crusades, he probably only meant that he had perfected it. _See_ Desnoiresterres, _Épicuriens et Lettrés_, p. 182. [119] We are not told the name of the farmer-general. In Favart's _Mémoires_ he is referred to merely as M. B***. [120] Justine's portraits, the most pleasing of which is perhaps Flipart's engraving of the drawing by Charles Nicolas Cochin _fils_, reproduced in this volume, show us a pretty and vivacious-looking young woman, but with features somewhat too irregular for beauty. It is probable, however, that the attraction which she possessed for her contemporaries was, like that of Mlle. Molière, of the kind in which Nature plays the lesser part, and the desire to please the greater. [121] A document found in the Bastille on its capture in July 1789, written by one Meusnier, an inspector of police who was employed by Maurice de Saxe in his persecution of the Favarts, and published the same year, under the title of _Manuscrit trouvé à la Bastille (signé Meusnier) concernant deux lettres-de-cachet lâchées contre Mlle. de Chantilly et M. Favart par le Maréchal de Saxe_, asserts that for some time Justine lived with Favart, as his mistress, in a house in the Rue de Buci. But in the opinion of Desnoiresterres, the best informed of the poet's biographers, this charge is sufficiently controverted by the following letter written by Favart to his _fiancée_: "Take care of your health; remember that mine is involved in it. You will take more care of yourself, if you have any regard for me, who love you more than life; though do not take offence, for my very sentiments are your eulogy. Your talents seduce me, but your virtue binds me. If your thoughts were in contradiction to your actions, you would be worthy neither of my esteem nor my love.... I am speaking to you against the interests of my heart; but I, at the same time, prove to you that I am the sincerest and the best of your friends."--Favart, _Mémoires et correspondance littéraire_ (edit. 1808), i. 20. Desnoiresterres, _Épicuriens et Lettrés_, p. 196 _et seq._ [122] _Madame Favart et le Maréchal de Saxe._ [123] _Mémoires et Correspondance_ (edit. 1808), i. 25. [124] Marie Rinteau, the great-grandmother of George Sand. [125] Desnoiresterres, _Épicuriens et Lettrés_, p. 215.