Memoirs of Countess Golovine a Lady At the Court of Catherine Ii
Memoirs of Countess Golovine a Lady At the Court of Catherine Ii
Varvara Nikolaevna Golitsyna Golovina
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I sometimes went with Mme. De Tarente to take supper at the Hotel de Caraman, where I spent delightful evenings. Mme. De Sourches has a most original wit, while Mme. De Vaudreuil's conversation is a combination of grace and 268 THE RECOLLECTIONS OF gentleness. Mme. De Barchy thinks only of Heaven, and one day she asked her father to make her a picture of his idea of Paradise. He painted a smiling country, peopled with shepherdesses with crooks and shepherds playing on the flute, sheep, brooks, ...rosebuds, and Mme. De Barchy, in a dress with a long train, plumes in her hair, and playing the guitar on a cloud. Without any theoretical knowledge of drawing, M. De Caraman could nevertheless convey his meaning in an unmistakeable manner. He made a queer collection of sketches of all the fortunes and misfortunes of his life. I have known few old men so gay and so worthy of respect, and at the age of eighty-four he still retained all his faculties. The marriage of his youngest son, however, brought him to the .
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