. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. ere of hosannas. Shewas over eighty when the king died, and had earned her When Peter the Great came to France in 1717, he did notforget to visit St. Cyr. On Friday, the nth of June, hewent from Versailles to St. Cyr, where he saw all the house-hold, and the girls in their classes. He was received therelike the king. He wished to see Madame de Maintenon, who,expecting his curiosity, had buried herself in her bed, all thecurtains closed, except one which was half open. The Czarentered her chamber, pulled back the window-curtains uponarriving
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. ere of hosannas. Shewas over eighty when the king died, and had earned her When Peter the Great came to France in 1717, he did notforget to visit St. Cyr. On Friday, the nth of June, hewent from Versailles to St. Cyr, where he saw all the house-hold, and the girls in their classes. He was received therelike the king. He wished to see Madame de Maintenon, who,expecting his curiosity, had buried herself in her bed, all thecurtains closed, except one which was half open. The Czarentered her chamber, pulled back the window-curtains uponarriving, then the bed-curtains, took a good long stare at her,said not a word to her, nor did she open her lips, and, with-out making her any kind of reverence, went his In like fashion we draw aside the curtain of the centuries,we take a good long stare at her, and having seen her as shewas, without making her any kind of reverence, we go ourway. 1 Madame de Maintenon died at St. Cyr on the 15th of April, 1719. Saint-Simon, III, p. 98. 248. h-H PHIN DE. Fr^NCK , /i7,, Thtcauic a &rontairt£ /BarZ7thirtnSfy-iM4**i4 c2m., ■ r?ti/ SisntftlfleJZDtssj- thCi^.^ ..^.•/.•. r/. ■-■ ■.//.. ..,/.,:j. 5«**to .,/./„ Louis of France, Grand Dauphin II MONSEIGNEUR IGNORANCE sat hard on Monseigneur, but it was notfor lack of the means of education. If the Grand Mon-arch could have had in his youth as splendid a school-ing as that he planned for his eldest son, he would un-doubtedly have avoided many of the errors into which he the father himself had lacked, he was determined thatthe son should have, that he might truly be the Grand Dau-phin, a complete man, a model prince, and in the future agreat king. Montausier, the highest representative in Frenchsociety of morality and intelligence, was one preceptor; thegreat Bossuet was another. Blondel taught him mathe-matics; Flechier and Tillemont wrote for him lives ofTheodosius and St. Louis; Huet
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