[Footnote 2266: M. de Conzié is surprised at four o'clock in the morning by his rival, an officer in the guards. "Make no noise," he said to him, "a dress like yours will be brought to me and I will have a cock made then we shall be on the same level." A valet brings him his weapons. He descends into the garden of the mansion, fights with the officer and disarms him. ("Correspondance," by Métra, XIV. May 20, 1783.)--"Le Comte de Clermont," by Jules Cousin, passim.--"Journal de Collé," III. 232 (July, 1769).] [Footnote 2267: De Loménie, "Beaumarchais et son temps, II. 304.] [Footnote 2268: De Luynes, XVL 161 (September, 1757). The village festival given to King Stanislas, by Mme. de Mauconseil at Bagatelle.--Bachaumont, III. 247 (September 7, 1767). Festival given by the Prince de Condé.] [Footnote 2269: "Correspondance," by Métra, XIII. 97 (June 15, 1782), and V. 232 (June 24 and 25, 1777).--Mme. de Genlis "Mémoires," chap. XIV.] [Footnote 2270: Bachaumont, November 17, 1770.--"Journal de Collé," III. 136 (April 29, 1767).--De Montlosier, "Mémoires," I. 43. "At the residence of the Commandant (at Clermont) they would have been glad to enlist me in private theatricals."] [Footnote 2271: "Correspondance." by Métra, II. 245 (Nov. 18. 1775).] [Footnote 2272: Julien. "Histoire du Théâtre de Madame de Pompadour." These representations last seven years and cost during the winter alone of 1749, 300,000 livres.--De Luynes, X. 45.--Mme. de Hausset, 230.] [Footnote 2273: Mme. Campan, I. 130.--Cf. with caution, the Mémoires, are suspect, as they have been greatly modified and arranged by Fleury.-- De Goncourt, 114. [Footnote 2274: Jules Cousin, "Le Comte de Clermont," p.21.--Mme. de Genlis, "Mémoires," chap. 3 and 11.--De Goncourt, 114.] [Footnote 2275: Bachaumont, III. 343 (February 23, 1768) and IV. 174, III. 232.--"Journal d Collé," passim.--Collé, Laujon and Poisinet are the principal purveyors for these displays; the only one of merit is "La Verité dans le Vin." In this piece instead of "Mylord." there was at first the "bishop of Avranches," and the piece was thus performed at Villers-Cotterets in the house of the Duc d'Orléans.] [Footnote 2276: Mme. d'Oberkirk, II. 82.--On the tone of the best society see "Correspondance" by Métra, I. 50, III. 68, and Bezenval (Ed. Barrière) 387 to 394.] [Footnote 2277: Mme. de Genlis, "Adèle et Théodore," II. 362.] [Footnote 2278: George Sand, I. 85. "At my grandmother's I have found boxes full of couplets, madrigals and biting satires.... I burned some of them so obscene that I would not dare read them through, and these written by abbés I had known to my infancy and by a marquis of the best blood." Among other examples, toned down, the songs on the Bird and the Shepherdess, may be read in "Correspondance," by Métra.] CHAPTER III. DISADVANTAGES OF THIS DRAWING ROOM LIFE. I. Its Barrenness and Artificiality.--Return to Nature and sentiment.