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 170
Calonne took from his pocket a superb gold box whichhe presented to that amiable artist, saying as he did so, Here is some-thing to keep your sweets in ! Madame Lebrun, wishing to put the Marie, Duchesse de Gramont-Caderousse (Dr. Williamson, for the Executors of the lateJ. Pierpont Morgan, Esq.)… … PARIS GOSSIP 69 bank-notes in this box, found that it was already filled with new twenty-franc pieces, each wrapped in a bank-note of the same value as the others. In the early spring of 1787, after the dismissal of Calonne from hisplace as Controller-General (in which he had only succeeded in…
