A princess of intrigue, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville and her times . and temptations she would haveto encounter, and writes to her friend at Port-Royal: Madame de Longueville to Madame de Sable. « Rouen, 22 June [1661.] ... Truly, if the Princesse de Conti were ableto maintain at Court the virtuous life she now leads,I should wish her to be there ; but how can she ?And is it not to expose people to certain perils, to placethem in such posts at twenty-four years of age, beauti-ful, happy, and in the midst of grandeur and pleasure ?And to expect them to emerge safe and soun
A princess of intrigue, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, duchesse de Longueville and her times . and temptations she would haveto encounter, and writes to her friend at Port-Royal: Madame de Longueville to Madame de Sable. « Rouen, 22 June [1661.] ... Truly, if the Princesse de Conti were ableto maintain at Court the virtuous life she now leads,I should wish her to be there ; but how can she ?And is it not to expose people to certain perils, to placethem in such posts at twenty-four years of age, beauti-ful, happy, and in the midst of grandeur and pleasure ?And to expect them to emerge safe and sound fromsuch things ! It is to credit them with supernaturalpowers. That is why I am unwilling to make myselfa party to it ; but, at the same time, I do not wish todeter her, because God may have intentions, and He isable to preserve her in that place, if He wishes to makeuse of her to sanctify it, as He preserved the threechildren in the furnace of Babylon. The Princesse de Conti would seem to have been a 1 Traite de la comedie et les spectacles, selon la tradition de V&glise1667).. From ?an engraving by Leguay after a painting by an unknown artist. MADELEINE DE SOUVRE, MARQUISE DE SABLE. A Princess of Intrigue 669 singularly unsophisticated young woman, for in anotherletter—presumably anterior to the preceding, though theyear is not given—Madame de Longueville writes : Madame de Longueville to Madame de Sable. Trie, 24 June. ... I am ashamed of what you tell me about theconduct of the Princesse de Conti towards Madamede la Meilleraie. She does not act thus with the in-tention of failing in courtesy towards people ; but it istrue that she does not know how one ought to behavetowards the world. I have never heard her speakof that. When you see Madame de la Meilleraie,tell her, if you please, how very much annoyed I amthat a person so nearly related to me should havetreated her in this manner. Madame de Sable, as we have mentioned, took themost extraordinary care of her heal
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