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CJ-NH.767.006
4 Dec 1767:12 (7)
London, September 9. Extract of a letter from Paris, August
29. A foreign Baron, struck some time since at the Opera
with the soft attitudes and wanton gestures of Mademoiselle
Allard, wrote to her the following billet:
Madam, I am a foreigner, and of course little accustomed to
French gallantry. I can make love only seriously. Your
figure and seducing attitudes have pleased me to a degree
that I am determined to marry you. I offer you my hand, if
you will quit the Theatre, and cut capers only for me. I am
a person of rank, have twenty thousand crowns a year. . .
[signed] The Baron of -----.
. . . [Several replies and re-replies, resulting in the
actress's rejection of the proposal]
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