Note 982 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Flecknoe, Characters ... (1665), London, 1673, p. 8. "They (the French) have gained so much influence over the English Fops that they furnish them with their French Puppydogs for Valets de Chambre" (French Conjuror, 1678). Addison (Spectator, No. 45) says he remembers the time when some well-bred Englishwomen kept a valet de chambre "because, forsooth, they were more handy than one of their own sex."