9 August 1739

From the Memoirs of the Duc de Luynes

On this day, the Duc de Luynes returns to Versailles after a few days spent in Paris on his way back from Compiègne and Chantilly. He finds that all the talk at court is of a tiff between M le Duc and the younger Mme la Duchesse, who did, he recollects, look rather subdued at Chantilly. The word in Paris is that she has moved to a different apartment in…