Excerpt from Memoirs of Madame Junot, Vol. 3 of 6: Duchesse D'abrantès

One of the advantages attached to Junot's position as Commandant of Paris was a box at each of the theatres. I confess I was truly grateful for the amusement I thus enjoyed. It afforded me also the means of bestowing pleasure, which was always to me one of the greatest I could enjoy, and in good truth it was not sparingly accorded to me. Tickets for morning and evening representations were eagerly asked, and I received, at a much later period, no less than eleven requests for the loan of my box at the Comedie Francaise for the second representation of The Templars. I had opportunities of being generous seven or eight times a day: I accorded them in the belief that by so doing I should secure, if not real friends, at least a sort of amicable relation with my numerous acquaintances which might survive the obligation. I was young when these ideas occupied my mind.

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