vous m'attirera la continuation de votre bonne volonte pour moi.'
{37a} Montesquieu praised Charles's 'simplicity, nobility, and
eloquence': 'comme vous le dites tres bien, vous estes un auteur.'
'Were you not so great a Prince, the Duchesse de Guillon'
(d'Aiguillon) 'and I would secure you a place in the Academy.'

The Duchesse d'Aiguillon, who later watched by Montesquieu's death-
bed, was a friend of Charles. She and Madame de Talmond literally
'pull caps' for him in d'Argenson's play. But she was in favour of
his going to Fribourg with a pension after the Peace: Madame de
Talmond encouraged resistance. Louis's minister, M. de Cousteille,
applied to Fribourg for an asylum for Charles on June 24, 1748. On
September 8, Burnaby wrote, for England, a long remonstrance to the
'Laudable States of Fribourg,' calling Charles 'this young Italian!'
The States, in five lines, rebuked Burnaby's impertinence, as
'unconfined in its expressions and so unsuitable to a Sovereign State
that we did not judge it proper to answer it.' {38a}

To Fribourg Charles would not go. He braved the French Court in
every way. He even insisted on a goldsmith's preferring his order
for a great service of plate to the King's, and, having obtained the
plate, he feasted the Princesse de Talmond, his friend and cousin,
the Duc de Bouillon, and a crowd of other distinguished people. {38b}
In his demeanour Charles resolutely affronted the French Ministers.
There were terrible scenes with Madame de Talmond, especially when
Charles was forbidden the house by her husband. Charles was led away
from her closed door by Bulkeley, the brother-in-law of Marshal
Berwick, and a friend of Montesquieu's. {39a} Thus the violence
which afterwards interrupted and ended Charles's liaison with Madame
de Talmond had already declared itself. One day, according to