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NYM(G.771.154
29 Jul 1771:22 (1031)
[News from London] Extract of a letter from Paris, March
22.---"As I know your curiosity with respect to every thing
that relates to Madame du Barre, the following chit-chat of
this metropolis may not be disagreeable to you. This lady
since her elevation to power and influence at the Court of
Versailles, is haughty and insolent even to her Royal
benefactor, of which she has given a recent instance. One
evening this lent she had assisted at a concert spiritual,
and on her return to the petit-souper in her own apartment,
found that her paramour had made pretty free with la soupe
Anglaise (Anglice rum punch). . . [23 more lines]
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