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Marquise de Chally
Madame Chally
also: m-me Шальи, маркиза де Шальи
A fictional noblewoman invented for this vignette's mock ball-invitation exchange with Napoleon; a stock figure of the courtly seduction anecdote, not a historical person.
Reading notes
- Poetry and Prose §36 the Marquise de Chally
A fictional noblewoman invented for this vignette, a stock figure of the courtly seduction anecdote rather than a historical person.