P.S.

⁠—Please do not send the largest Watteau. Although you paid thirty thousand francs for it, it is only a copy, the original having been burned, under the Directoire by Barras, during a night of debauchery. Consult the memoirs of Garat.

“I do not care for the Louis

XV

chatelaine, as I doubt its authenticity.”

“Monsieur le Baron: