Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary . the Empress MariaTheresa, and the two Empresses Catherine of Russia;and he adds, speaking of French women: Was not the Princesse des Ursins worth a little more thanChamillart ? Is it thought that the Marquise du Chatelet couldnot write a better despatch than M. Rouille? Would Mme. deLambert have made such absurd and barbarous laws as those ofKeeper of the Seals dArmenonville against the Protestants, domesticthieves, smugglers, and negroes ? The Princesse des Ursins herself treated the samequestion less solemnly and more agreeably in
Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary . the Empress MariaTheresa, and the two Empresses Catherine of Russia;and he adds, speaking of French women: Was not the Princesse des Ursins worth a little more thanChamillart ? Is it thought that the Marquise du Chatelet couldnot write a better despatch than M. Rouille? Would Mme. deLambert have made such absurd and barbarous laws as those ofKeeper of the Seals dArmenonville against the Protestants, domesticthieves, smugglers, and negroes ? The Princesse des Ursins herself treated the samequestion less solemnly and more agreeably in one ofher letters to Mme. de Maintenon. The latter hadwritten to her, complaining of the frivolity of the talkthat reigned more than ever at the Court of .Versailles:Yes, madame, she writes, the greatest difficultylies in the little resources to be found in the men;they are nearly all selfish, envious, insincere, insensi-ble to the public good; they consider all sentimentscontrary to their own as romantic and which Mme. des Ursins replies:. PRINCESSE DES an old print. Ube iprincesse &e5 THrstns. 409 You make nie a portrait of most men, which is not much totheir advantage; and what I think the worst of it is, that it seems tome rather natural. They return us the same; for if one is to believethem, we have most of their imperfections and few of their goodqualities. Yet it is certain that they have contemptible pettinesses,and they tear each other to pieces even more than women . The knowledge that I have of the world attaches me stillmore to you; 1 find there all the virtues and the goodness that aretacking in others. This is how, while complimenting each other, twopolitical women talked of men in their tete-a-tete,and took their revenge on Don Luis de Haro andMazarin. But, in a letter dated soon after, the truth is per-ceptible; 1 catch a confession there which provesthat revenge is never quite complete, even to theeyes of the heroines who indu
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