[Footnote 2248: Mme. d'Oberkirk, I. 299.--Mme. de Genlis, "Mémoires," ch. XI.] [Footnote 2249: De Tilly, I. 24.] [Footnote 2250: Necker, "Oeuvres complètes," XV, 259.] [Footnote 2251: Narrated by M. de Bezenval, a witness of the duel.] [Footnote 2252: See especially: Saint-Aubin, "Le bal paré," "Le Concert;"--Moreau, "Les Elégants," "La Vie d'un Seigneur à la mode," the vignettes of "La nouvelle Héloise;" Beaudouin, "La Toilette," "Le Coucher de la Mariée;" Lawreince, "Qu'en dit l'abbé?"--Watteau, the first in date and in talent, transposes these customs and depicts them the better by making them more poetic.--Of the rest, reread "Marianne," by Marivaux; "La Vérité dans le vin," by Collé; "Le coin du feu," "La nuit et le moment," by Crébillon fils; and two letters in the "Correspondance inédite" of Mme. du Deffant, one by the Abbé Barthélemy and the other by the Chevalier de Boufflers, (I. 258, 341.).] [Footnote 2253: "Correspondence inédite de Mme. du Deffant," published by M. de Saint-Aulaire, I. 235, 258, 296, 302, 363.] [Footnote 2254: Mme. de Genlis, "Dict. des Etiquettes," II. 38. "Adèle et Théodore, I, 312, II, 350,--George Sand, "Histoire de ma vie," I. 228.--De Goncourt, p. 111.] [Footnote 2255: George Sand, I. 59.] [Footnote 2256: "A comparative view," etc., by John Andrews.] [Footnote 2257: Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 15, 154.] [Footnote 2258: Châteaubriand, I. 34.--"Mémoires de Mirabeau," passim.--George Sand, I. 59, 76.] [Footnote 2259: Comptes rendus de la société de Berry (1863-1864).] [Footnote 2260: "Histoire de Troyes pendant la Révolution," by Albert Babeau, I. 46.] [Footnote 2261: Foissets, "Le Président des Brosses," 65, 69, 70, 346.--"Lettres du Président des Brosses," (ed. Coulomb), passim.--Piron being uneasy concerning his "Ode à Priape," President Bouhier, a man of great and fine erudition, and the least starched of learned ones, sent for the young man and said to him, "You are a foolish fellow. If any one presses you to know the author of the offence tell him that I am." (Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," VII. 414.)] [Footnote 2262: Foisset, ibid.. 185. Six audiences a week and often two a day besides his labors as antiquarian, historian, linguist, geographer, editor and academician.] [Footnote 2263: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.] [Footnote 2264: De Valfons, "Souvenirs," 60.] [Footnote 2265: Montgaillard (an eye-witness). "Histoire de France," II. 246.]