英语词汇gramont-s memory的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Gramont’s memory. The name is often spelled Grammont due to its misspelling in the Mémoires du comte de Grammont. A Gramont’s memory, a convenient one, derives from a tale told about the count and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton. While visiting England in 1663, the sharp-tongued Gramont is said to have grossly insulted and refused to apologize to La Belle Hamilton, whose brothers followed him as he prepared to leave the coun- try, drew their swords, and asked if he hadn’t forgotten some- thing. “True, true,” he replied, unruffled. “I promised to marry your sister.” This he did. Only the year before his marriage, Phi- libert, comte de Gramont, had been exiled from Paris for at- tempting to rival King Louis XIV in a love affair. The French diplomat’s memoirs, a masterpiece of their kind, vividly de- scribe the licentious court of England’s Charles II. They were written by Gramont’s brother-in-law, Anthony Hamilton, from materials supplied by the count. So sharp-tongued was Philib- ert that one writer describes the immense feeling of relief ex- pressed by the French court when, in 1707, it was announced that he had died. Even at 87 he was still a threat to anyone who crossed him.

词汇	gramont-s memory
词源	Gramont’s memory. The name is often spelled Grammont due to its misspelling in the Mémoires du comte de Grammont. A Gramont’s memory, a convenient one, derives from a tale told about the count and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton. While visiting England in 1663, the sharp-tongued Gramont is said to have grossly insulted and refused to apologize to La Belle Hamilton, whose brothers followed him as he prepared to leave the coun- try, drew their swords, and asked if he hadn’t forgotten some- thing. “True, true,” he replied, unruffled. “I promised to marry your sister.” This he did. Only the year before his marriage, Phi- libert, comte de Gramont, had been exiled from Paris for at- tempting to rival King Louis XIV in a love affair. The French diplomat’s memoirs, a masterpiece of their kind, vividly de- scribe the licentious court of England’s Charles II. They were written by Gramont’s brother-in-law, Anthony Hamilton, from materials supplied by the count. So sharp-tongued was Philib- ert that one writer describes the immense feeling of relief ex- pressed by the French court when, in 1707, it was announced that he had died. Even at 87 he was still a threat to anyone who crossed him.
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