[129] Conf., viii. 142, 143.
[130] The other day I came for the first time upon the following in the sayings of Madame de Lambert:—"Ce ne sont pas toujours les fautes qui nous perdent; c'est la manière de se conduire aprés les avoir faites." [1877.]
[131] Conf., xii. 187, 188.
[132] Ib., viii. 221.
[133] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv., xii. 103. See Conf., xii 188, and Corr., v. 324.
[134] Referring, no doubt, to the ceremony which he called their marriage, and which had taken place in 1768.
[135] Corr., vi. 79-86. August 12, 1769.
[136] Composed in 1745. The Fêtes de Ramire was represented at Versailles at the very end of this year.
[137] Some time in 1746-7. Conf., vii. 113, 114.
[138] Probably in the winter of 1746-7. Corr., ii. 207. Conf., vii. 120-124. Ib., viii. 148. Corr., ii. 208. June 12, 1761, to the Maréchale de Luxembourg.