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MG-A(G.767.042
10 Dec 1767:21 (1161)
Extract of a letter from Paris, August 22. A foreign Baron,
struck some days since at the opera, with the soft attitudes
and wanton gestures of Madamoiselle 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 that
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; and for the rest, am young, well made, and vigorous.
Return me an answer directly. [signed] The Baron of ---."
. . . [the correspondence continues: the dancer refuses the
offer, preferring to be free in choosing and discarding
lovers; the Baron finally threatens to kill her and then
himself.]
Madamoiselle Allard, extremely alarmed, went to the
Lieutenant of the Police. The latter comforted her, and bid
her fear nothing. Strict searches are making after the
foreigner.
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