. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. acted,until appealed to for her opinion. She hadhitherto stringently abstained from influencing (at leastbly) any public measure, or the fortunes of anypublic man, while she had limited her familiar circle tomall number of individuals, and those selectedrather for their social qualities than their politicalposition; but suddenly a revolution, alike of feelingand of action, supervened ; she became the centre ofI rt favour, the object of Court adulation, and thesource of Court advancement My attendants neverserved me as t
. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. acted,until appealed to for her opinion. She hadhitherto stringently abstained from influencing (at leastbly) any public measure, or the fortunes of anypublic man, while she had limited her familiar circle tomall number of individuals, and those selectedrather for their social qualities than their politicalposition; but suddenly a revolution, alike of feelingand of action, supervened ; she became the centre ofI rt favour, the object of Court adulation, and thesource of Court advancement My attendants neverserved me as they should have done until they saw meleaving your apartments, wrote one of the first nof France to the ci-devant widow Scarron up n oneoccasion; while a second courtier, in a circle wherethe history oi the century was under discussion, ob-served that, after the death i I 1 ouvois, the next chap-ter should be headed, haul of the reign of Louis theGreat, and the • lii . lie Reign ol Francesof Aubigne. The epigram was a bitter .me. « I hroniques ?!. I1 1 :1 de CHAPTER X The Marquis de Pomponne—Industry of Louis XIV.—SocialAdvancement of the Ministers—Marriages of the Duke ofChartres and the Duke of Maine—Governors of the Duke ofChartres—The Abbe Dubois—Portrait of Philip of Orleans—The Royal Brothers—Frivolity of Monsieur ; His Portrait;His Costume ; His Insignificance—The Value of an Addi-tional Inch—Magnificence of Madame de Montespan—Ma-dame de Maintenon and the New Duchess of Maine ; HerArrogance—Stinging Rejoinder of the Duke of Elbceuf—Cowardice of the Duke of Maine—The Dutch Journal—Death of Mademoiselle—Presumption of M. de Lauzun—Capture of Namur—The Ghost-Seer—Madame Armond—ABaffled Intrigue—Power of Madame de Maintenon—Distrustof the King—Equivocal Position of Madame de Maintenon—The Monarch and the Court Ladies—Ambulatory Ban-quets. A MONTH after the death of Louvois the Mar-quis de Pomponne was called to th
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