Note 471 — BOOK II[446]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Élisabeth Françoise Sophie Comtesse de Houdetot (1730-1813), née de La Live de Bellegarde. She married Lieutenant-General the Comte de Houdetot in 1748. She was the author of a few Pensées, but owes her reputation rather to the lively passion with which she inspired Rousseau and to her liaison with Saint-Lambert, which lasted nearly half a century.—T.