8. La Briche (1735–1785), introducteur des ambassadeurs and secrétaire honoraire des commandemants de la reine, was the brother of the comtesse d’Houdetot. DBF.

9. Adélaïde-Edmée Prévost (1755–1844) married La Briche in 1780. She was a longtime friend of Mme d’Houdetot’s and like the comtesse enjoyed the company of intellectuals and artists including Morellet, d’Holbach, and Marmontel. See Marmontel’s description of her in his Mémoires, John Renwick, ed. (Clermont- Ferrand, 1972), I, 298. Her daughter, Caroline, married the comte Molé in 1798; she translated many English novels, all published anonymously: DBF; Larousse; le baron de Barante, “Lettres de Florian à Mme de La Briche” in Mélanges publiés par la Société des Bibliophiles françois (Paris, 1903), II, 39 (5th pagination).