Note 386 — XXXVIII. 1787. June–July. THE COUNTESS’S ESCAPE.—A LAST VISIT TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BAR-SUR-AUBE.
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It was commonly believed at the time, that the authorities not only connived at the countess’s escape, but abetted it. It is said that at the moment of her departure from the Salpêtrière, the superior jokingly said to her, “Farewell, Madame, take great care you are not remarked” (meaning also re-marked with the branding-iron).