. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. few chosen friends, bywhom she was continually surrounded; while thegrief of the Duchess of Bourbon-Conde, which was atfirst immoderate, was not lessened by the position inwhich she found herself when deprived o( his .diked by Madame de Maintenon, in open rupturen it only with the Duchess of Bourgogne, but a th the 1 Kike of Maine, and with the Duchess of1 deans, her sister, she was, moreover, at law with herhusbands family, destitute of one powerful friend, andthe mother of a son barely eighteen years of age,
. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. few chosen friends, bywhom she was continually surrounded; while thegrief of the Duchess of Bourbon-Conde, which was atfirst immoderate, was not lessened by the position inwhich she found herself when deprived o( his .diked by Madame de Maintenon, in open rupturen it only with the Duchess of Bourgogne, but a th the 1 Kike of Maine, and with the Duchess of1 deans, her sister, she was, moreover, at law with herhusbands family, destitute of one powerful friend, andthe mother of a son barely eighteen years of age, twodaughters approaching to womanhood, over whom shehad already lost all control, and several children yetinfants. In th; tion she found herself compelled to regret even her hu band and her father-in-law, 1 »rwhose loss >he had never previously mourned ; but ashers was a nature by no means adapted to d :.d- ency, she shortly shook off her grief, and, plungiiinto a vortex of pleasure and dissipation, became oncemore the haughty and unprincipled woman ol formerda) CHAPTER XVI Increasing Confidence of Louis XIV. in the Duke of Bour-gogne; Its Effect upon His Character ; His Court; His Modeof Life ; His Political Liberality—Heedlessness and ReadyWit of the Dauphiness—The Fatal Present—The DauphinessPoisoned ; Her Death—Regrets of the Nation—Sickness andDeath of the Dauphin—Despair of Louis XIV.—The Dukeof Bretagne Declared Dauphin ; His Death—The TrebleInterment—The Duchess of Ventadour—Narrow Escape ofthe Duke of Anjou—Death of the Duke of Berri—AccusationAgainst the Duke of Orleans—Popular Tumult—Court Fac-tions—The Duke of Orleans Applies to be put on His Trial;Is Refused—Mediation of M. de Pontchartrain—Departureof the Duke from Paris—Unpopularity of Louis XIV.—Profligacy of the Duchess of Berri—Private Sorrows of theKing. LOUIS XIV., after the death of his son, becamemore unreserved with the Duke of Bourgogne,who, on the demise
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