Note 72 — PART I THE ABBAYE-AUX BOIS (continued 2)

M. Durfort de Cheverny, in his Memoirs, says that the Duc de Choiseul having severely reprimanded his sister-in-law on account of her intimacy with Clairval, the Countess had solemnly declared that the child she had just given birth to was a legitimate daughter of the Count. (See the Memoirs of the Comte Durfort de Cheverny. Paris, 1886.)