The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 252 pages of information about The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X.

The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 252 pages of information about The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X.

9.  Count Ludovic de Rosanbo (Duke de Guise).  He was one of the handsomest men of his time.  He had married the daughter of the Count de Mesnard, lady companion to the Duchess of Berry.

10.  The Countess de La Rochejaquelein, daughter of the Duke de Duras (a lady of honor to the Queen).  She was honorary lady companion to the Duchess of Berry.

11.  Miss Louise Stuart (a page to the Queen-Mother of Scotland).

12.  Miss Pole Carew (Mary Seaton, maid of honor to the same queen).

13.  The Count de Mailly (Rene de Mailly, officer of the guard to Mary Stuart).  The Count was the son of the Marshal de Mailly, defender of the Tuileries on August 10, who paid for his devotion on the scaffold of the Revolution.  Aide-de-camp of the Duke of Bordeaux, and lieutenant-colonel; he was a brilliant officer who had received glorious wounds in the Russian campaign.  He was married to a Mademoiselle de Lonlay de Villepail.

14.  The Countess d’Orglandes, nee Montblin, one of the prettiest women of the court (Louise de Clermont-Tonnerre, Countess of Crussol).

15.  The Duchess de Caylus, nee La Grange, a great beauty, remarried afterwards to the Count de Rochemure (Diane de Poitiers).

16.  Mademoiselle de Bearn, a charming young girl, married afterwards to the Duke of Vallombrosa, and dying so young and so regretted (a maid of honor to Mary Stuart).

17.  Count de Mesnard, peer of France, field marshal, first equerry of the Duchess of Berry, aide-de-camp of the Duke of Bordeaux (Admiral de Coligny).

18.  Marquis de Louvois, peer of France, married to Mademoiselle de Monaco (Count Gondi de Ritz).

19.  The Duke of Richelieu, nephew of the President of the Council of Ministers of Louis XVIII. (Jacques d’Albon, Marshal of Saint Andre).

20.  The Baron de Charette (Francois de Lorraine).  He had married a daughter of the Duke of Berry and of Miss Brown.  His son was the general of the Papal Zouaves.

21.  Countess de Pastoret, nee Neufermeil (the Duchess of Montpensier).

22.  The Countess Auguste de Juigne, nee Durfort de Civrac (Jeanne d’Albret).

Among the pages were the Duke de Maille, who carried the banner of France, and Count Maxence de Damas.

Eugene Lamy, at the age of eighty-seven, exhibited in 1887 a charming water-color, of which the subject was “A Ball under Henry III.”  He has the same talent, the same brightness, the same freshness of coloring as when, fifty-eight years before, he painted the water colors of the Mary Stuart ball.  The Duke de Nemours, one of the last survivors of the guests of this ball, could recount its splendors.  Even in the time of the old regime no more elegant ball was ever seen.  If such a fete had been given in our time, the detailed accounts of it would fill the papers; but under the Restoration the press was very sober in the matter of “society news,” and the dazzling ball of 1829 was hardly mentioned.  On the morrow, the Journal des Debats said:—­

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