Note 228 — Chapter XI
Henry Vizetelly translation
The ambassador was never married. This Madame de Ferriol, his brother’s wife, mixed in the best society of Paris, and enjoyed considerable influence with the high personages of the State. She was the sister of the famous Abbé de Tencin, Cardinal, Minister of State, and Archbishop of Lyons, and also of the celebrated nun, notorious for her debauchery, the mistress of Dubois and mother of d’Alembert, by the Chevalier Destouches:—Mémoires de Saint-Simon, vol. xi. p. 182. Chéruel’s edition. See also Vézelay, historical study by M. Aimé Chérest, vol. iii. p. 83.