Marie-Adélaïde LENORMAND (1772-1843) famous... - Lot 630 - Rossini

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Marie-Adélaïde LENORMAND (1772-1843) famous... - Lot 630 - Rossini
Marie-Adélaïde LENORMAND (1772-1843) famous clairvoyant, friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais. L.A.S., Brussels [ca. 1815?]; 8 pages in-4. She is in Brussels and awaits news from France: "Everything is going badly in our dear country. These extremes in everything: each party does not want nor intend to make any concession from there an infinity of misfortunes. Everything is on the line. One is for Mr. the ex-Bishop [Talleyrand]; he is said to be a liberal today; when I left Paris, he was a monarch. What to believe, he laughs at our weather vanes". If this "damned bishop" makes the ferret, M. de Cazes, him, makes the fox. She has only to wait for the denouement of their political rivalry: "Whoever triumphs, I will become necessary". Many stockbrokers are ruined by the fall of public funds; the Ultras think they have triumphed: "poor people! most of them are devoid of spirit and means"... She is writing a book: "the French Sibyl, who has known how to put herself above the prejudices of the century, but has never sold her pen, will find herself [...] threefold happy to follow your advice in everything. [...] What do you say about the character I give to Joséphine? A little flattered, you might say. I know, but [...] I loved her. Not for her benefits. I have clean hands of the gold that she lavished on cowardly courtiers", none of whom defended her: "these court bees [...] are indeed the most cowardly, the most execrable chameleons of the world", etc... She likes Belgium, "It is the country of the gods, its government is wise, everyone speaks, the king and the princes listen, [...] it is the happiest place in Europe"...
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