All those who had served me in this affair I liberally rewarded;
Marin received for his share 500 louis. It is true he lost the
confidence of Chamilly, but he gained mine instead, so that it
will easily be believed he was no sufferer by the exchange. I
caused the marechale to receive from the king a superb Turkey
carpet, to which I added a complete service of Sevres porcelain,
with a beautiful breakfast set, on which were landscapes most
delicately and skilfully drawn in blue and gold: I gave her also
two large blue porcelain cots, as finely executed as those you
have so frequently admired in my small saloon. These trifles
cost me no less a sum than 2800 livres. I did not forget my
good friend M. de Sartines, who received a cane, headed with gold,
around which was a small band of diamonds. As for Chamilly, I
granted him his pardon; and I think you will admit that was being
sufficiently generous.
After having thus recompensed the zeal of my friends, I had
leisure to think of taking vengeance upon the duc de Richelieu
for the part he had acted. He came of his own accord to throw
himself into the very heat of my anger. He had been calling on
the marechale de Mirepoix, where he had seen with envious eyes
the magnificent carpet I had presented her with; the cupidity of
the duke induced him, after continually recurring to the subject,
to say, that where my friends were concerned, no one could accuse
me of want of liberality.
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