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Let me revert to my marriage, which was performed secretly at the
parish of Saint Laurent. I believe the king knew of it, altho' he
never alluded to it any more than myself. Thus the malice of my
enemies was completely balked in this affair. Some days afterwards
comte Jean received a letter from the attorney-general of the
parliament of Toulouse, M. the marquis de Bonrepos-Riquet. This
gentleman informed my brother-in-law that he had been applied to,
to institute an inquiry at all the notaries, and amongst all the
registers of the parishes for the proof of my marriage; that he
warned us to be on our guard, and that whatever diligence he
might be desired to employ, he should do nothing without informing
us. We felt the obligation of this proceeding, and my brother-in-law
thanked the attorney-general in my name as well as in his own. He
told him that it was not at Toulouse that the parties interested
should make their researches for my marriage certificate, but at
Paris, either at the parish church of Saint Laurent, or at the
notary's, Lepot d'Auteuil. M. de Bonrepos gave part of this reply
to the duchesse de Grammont. Great was the bustle amongst the
Choiseuls! I leave you to judge of the fury of the lady or ladies,
for the contesse de Grammont was no less irritated than the other,
always prepossessed with the idea, that to please the king was
to wrong their family.
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