Sober dressing gowns
- Camille was the son of Charles of Laubespin and Camille of Lévis-Mirepoix. His parents had emigrated during the Revolution and had thus lost everything but their head. That was better than to be beheaded in France.
- To survive, Camille of Lévis became a lavender. A drastic change compared to the glory of Versailles. After the Revolution, the couple had kept a very sober life style.
- Quite different was the case of the parents of Gilda of Beaufort-Spontin, the daughter-in-law of Camille de Lévis. Only Beauraing had been burned. Hence, Gilda had been brought up in quite a decorum.
- Upon returning from honeymoon to her parents-in-law, Gilda gets dressed elegantly for the dinner and discovers that her in-laws are wearing pyjamas and dressing gowns .
- Her mother-in-law asks her then to get dressed more simply. What she did on the field instead of retorting that she would account of it for the next day. O tempora, O mores!
