Madame Du Barry . t visits, and wasreported to be deeply moved by her exhortations torepentance. Urged on by Christophe de Beaumont, the Archbishopof Paris, and the Chancellor, who believed that he detectedin the King signs of remorse, and had decided that it mightbe more advisable for him to be on the side of the confessorthan on that of the mistress, Madame Louise returned to theproject of Louiss marriage with the Archduchess Elizabethof Austria, which had never been wholly abandoned, andwhen her father demurred to this, suggested that perhapsthe widowed Princesse de Lamballe might serve equ
Madame Du Barry . t visits, and wasreported to be deeply moved by her exhortations torepentance. Urged on by Christophe de Beaumont, the Archbishopof Paris, and the Chancellor, who believed that he detectedin the King signs of remorse, and had decided that it mightbe more advisable for him to be on the side of the confessorthan on that of the mistress, Madame Louise returned to theproject of Louiss marriage with the Archduchess Elizabethof Austria, which had never been wholly abandoned, andwhen her father demurred to this, suggested that perhapsthe widowed Princesse de Lamballe might serve equallywell. Madame du Barry became seriously alarmed, and oneday, when the King was on the point of starting for Saint-Denis to visit his daughter, threw herself at his feet, toldhim that she knew that her disgrace was decided upon, andthat she would prefer to receive her dismissal from his own 242 in >F8ijo,i , 1 in k;-! MADAMF, LOUISI-: Dl. I-RANCK (Daughter of Louis XV.) From tie Pdtiifing by NA-rritu. MADAME DU BARRY lips than to sufFer the humiliation of receiving it from thebase cabal which was conspiring to ruin her.^ The project of the Kings remarriage came to nothing,but the influence of the royal Carmelite over her fatherseemed to increase as Louis grew older, and towards theend of the year 1773 rumours of the favourites approach-ing fall were rife. They were, however, without founda-tion, and the King, learning what was reported, took anearly opportunity of disproving it. On November 16,the marriage of the Comte dArtois to Maria Theresa ofSavoy, younger sister of the Comtesse de Provence, wascelebrated. The ceremony was preceded by a banquet,which was understood to be confined to the Royal Familyand Princes and Princesses of the Blood. To the generalastonishment, however, Madame du Barry appeared, radiant as the sun, and wearing five million livresworth of jewels on her person. A place was reservedfor her immediately opposite the King, and it wasremarked th
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