Precocious Talents Manifested -- Mlle. Vigee's Father and Mother -- Death of Her Father -- A Friend of Her Girlhood -- Her Mother Remarries -- Mlle. Vigee's First Portrait of Note (Count Schouvaloff) -- Acquaintance with Mme. Geoffrin -- The Authoress's Puritanical Bringing-up -- Male Sitters Attempt Flirtation -- Public Resorts of Paris Before the Revolution 3 Tedious Sojourn in the Country -- Social Amenities in Paris -- Mlle. Vigee Becomes Mme. Lebrun -- Prognostications of Unhappy Wedlock -- On the Ladder of Fame -- Singularities of Oriental Taste -- Marie Antoinette as a Model -- Painting the Royal Family -- How Louis XVIII. Sang -- The Princess de Lamballe 16…
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