. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. aint-Simon; on the otherhand, he had every inducement to spend as little as possible. I conducted myself/ says the Due de Lauzun, very pru-dently and even deferentially with Madame de Lauzun; Ihad Madame de Cambis very openly, for whom I concernedmyself very little; I kept the little Eugenie, whom I loved agreat deal. What was true of M. de Lauzun was true ofthe majority, especially the generation of the Due de Lauzun wrote of his life at a little later period; at thetime in question, however, everything would have been thesame, except in
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. aint-Simon; on the otherhand, he had every inducement to spend as little as possible. I conducted myself/ says the Due de Lauzun, very pru-dently and even deferentially with Madame de Lauzun; Ihad Madame de Cambis very openly, for whom I concernedmyself very little; I kept the little Eugenie, whom I loved agreat deal. What was true of M. de Lauzun was true ofthe majority, especially the generation of the Due de Lauzun wrote of his life at a little later period; at thetime in question, however, everything would have been thesame, except in one particular: he would still have had hisMadame de Cambis, but not very openly. At Versaillesthe king kept vice below the surface. An extreme curios-ity, or a great familiarity with things, was necessary to de-tect the slightest intimacy between the two sexes. Louis could coerce his courtiers, but he could not correctthem, though at times he spoke in no uncertain tones. w Theyear finished (1695) with the disgrace of Madame de Saint- 360. ■Mademoiselle de Chartres Princesse de Conti Manners and Morals of the Courtiers Geran. She was on the best of terms with the princesses,and as much a lover of good cheer as Madame de Chartresand Mme. la Duchesse. The latter had in the park ofVersailles a little house that she called the Desert/ Thereshe received very doubtful company, giving such gay repaststhat the king, informed of her doings, was angry, and for-bade her to continue these parties or to receive certain de Saint-Geran was then in the first year of hermourning, so that the king did not think it necessary to in-clude her among the interdicted, but he intimated that he didnot approve of her. In spite of this, Mme. la Duchesse, hav-ing invited her to an early supper at the Desert a shorttime after, prolonged the meal so far into the night and withso much gaiety that it came to the ears of the king. He wasin great anger, and learning that Madame de Saint-Geranhad
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