“Thenceforth Jeanne's deeper infatuations always seemed to concern gentlemen of a certain age and standing in the financial world. Older men say such interesting things, and Jeanne was always a good listener. Anything you said was news to her.”
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Madame du Barry
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