He was the Marquis's father-in-law, the old Duke de Laverdiere, once on a time favourite of the Count d'Artois, in the days of the Vaudreuil hunting-parties at the Marquis de Conflans', and had been, it was said, the lover of Queen Marie Antoinette, between Monsieur de Coigny and Monsieur de Lauzun.
Markesaren aitaginarreba zen, Laverdiere duke zaharra, Artoisko kondearen begikoa izana, Vaudreuilgo ehiza-saioen garaian, Conflansko markesaren etxean, eta, ziotenez, Marie-Antoinette erreginaren amorantea izana monsieur de Coignyren eta monsieur de Lauzunen artean.