[55] La Genlis herself says in set terms that, “in looks he is very different from his brothers,” and the comparison she makes is very far from being in favour of the first (Mémoires, vol. iii, pp. 150, 164, and following).
[56] See First Part, Chapter VI.
[57] See Chapter VII, Part II.
[58] Perhaps the many trips the Duke made during the summer of 1773, and on which he would take no more than two or three confidential followers (see Gazette de Leyde, August 6th, article, “Paris”), may have had for end nothing but to ensure the success of his infernal project. And perhaps the child may have been deposited in one of those northern places the Prince so often visited.
[59] See Chapter XII, Part II.
[60] See Chapter I, Part I.
[61] Mémoires secrets ou Journal d’un observateur, June 16th, 1773.
[62] See Chapter II, Part II.
[63] See pages 123, 124, Part I.
[64] Chapter II, Part II.