Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 302
which perhaps made them anxious. It is certain that theywould have furnished enough material for a book which would have beenvery piquant, but quite as certainly would have been very scandalous. It is a good thing for the reputations of many of the Parisiennes ofthe days of Louis XVI that those… … WHY HER SOUVENIRS ARE DULL 139 not a scandal-monger. She knew all the gossip of Baron de Breteuil, forexample, who was at the head of the Government when the Bastille fell. Recalling the last sitting that Marie Antoinette gave her for the bigpicture at Versailles, Madame says : I remember that the…
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