sentences:  She left him in 1773 and moved to Paris, where she settled in the Palais Royal area, and became a courtesan for the better classes, taking a number of lovers.In these circumstances she was recruited for the French secret service, possibly by Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas himself.He sent her to The Hague in 1778 for a short mission, where she again met Jan Munniks, who himself now was a spy in British service.