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NYJ-N.771.093
6 Jun 1771:12 (1483)
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 spirituel, and on her return to the
petit-souper in her own apartment, found that her paramour
had made pretty free with la soupe Angloise, (Anglice rum
punch;). . . [continues to top of next col.]
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