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Talleyrand's I have seen most of the celebrated characters, that have made themselves underline famous /underline or underline infamous /underline for the last 25 years on the guilty theatre of Paris. Young & unmarried ladies are in France nonentities in Society & till a woman is married she is nothing, but somehow or other the Fouquiers broke through their usual rule with regard to me. Prince Metternich, the Austrian Prime Minister, the Prince Kaunitz of the present day, first brought me into notice, & his example his been followed more or less by all the rest. I do not mention his vanity but only to show you, that I have had greater opportunities of making my journey of use to me than young unmarried females generally have. The second circumstance that brought me forward & gave me a greater notoriety than I was desirous of having, was the mania that all the princes took of foreign:French "faisant la cour" /foreign to me. One of them in particular, The Prince Royal of Bavaria, made himself so absurd, by the extravagance of his folly, that he rendered himself