Note 96 — PART II THE PRINCESS CH. DE LIGNE

Madame de Pailly was the daughter of Captain de Malvieu, of the Swiss guards; her family came from Berne, but her father’s rank keeping him in France, she had been brought up there, and while still very young had married M. de Pailly, a Swiss officer, also in the French service. Her husband took his pension and returned to Lausanne; Madame de Pailly often went to see him there, but she continued to reside in Paris, and was, in fact, completely separated from him after the year 1762. For more details see Memoirs of Mirabeau, by Lucas de Montigny; The Comtesse de Rochefort and her Friends, by Louis de Loménie.