Crossword-Solution: BARONNE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The scandal of this change in the menage of Chantilly--it happened in 1822--reached the ears of the King, and the Baronne de Feucheres was forbidden to appear at Court.

But meantime (for Sophie's machinations must be taken as concurrent with events as they transpire) the Baronne de Feucheres had approached the son of Philippe-Egalite, suggesting that the last-born of his six children, the Duc d'Aumale, should have the Prince de Conde for godfather.

But up to the last month or so of those six years he steadfastly refused to have anything to do with the Baronne de Feucheres--not that Sophie ever gave up manoeuvring and wheedling for a return to Court favour.

Later again in the day he gave another version still: he had fallen against the door to a secret staircase from his bedroom while letting the Baronne de Feucheres out, the secret staircase being in communication with Sophie's private apartments.

All these people, with the exception of the Baronne de Flassans, who sat up writing letters until two, retire about the same time.