[738] Ibid., 649, Cowley to Aberdeen, May 13, 1842.
[739] Ibid., 645, Aberdeen to Cowley, February 18, 1842.
[740] Ibid., 653, Cowley to Aberdeen, December 2, 1842 (secret and confidential). General Atthalin’s intimacy with Mdme. Adelaïde, Louis Philippe’s sister and political confidant, was notorious. Madame Atthalin was one of the least offensive of the names applied to her by the legitimists. The story that she was secretly married to General Atthalin appears to be unfounded. F.O. Spain 604, Aston to Aberdeen, November 21, 1842.
[741] Vide p. 227.
[742] F.O. France 653 and 665, Cowley to Aberdeen, December 2 (secret and confidential), December 13 and 19, 1842 (secret and confidential), January 20 and 22 (secret and confidential), January 2 and 6 (confidential), January 30, 1843.
[743] F.O. Spain 597, Aberdeen to Aston, December 27, 1842.
[744] F.O. France 663, Aberdeen to Cowley, February 14, 1843.
[745] F.O. France 666, Cowley to Aberdeen, March 6, 13, 31, 1843.
[746] F.O. Spain 624, Aston to Aberdeen, March 6, 1843.
[747] F.O. France 667, Cowley to Aberdeen, May 29 (secret and confidential), June 2, 1843 (confidential).