. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER XIII Political Position of France—Illness of the Dauphin—LesDames de la Halle—A New Campaign—Affront to the Dukeof Chartres—His Increased Libertinage—Regal Retorts—Quarrel of the King and Monsieur—Indisposition of Monsieur ;His Death—Terror of Madame—Interview Between LouisXIV. and the Duke of Chartres—Want of Feeling of theKing—Grief of the Duchess of Bourgogne—The BrelanTable—Novel Position of the Duke of Chartres—Late Courtof Monsieur—Madame, and Madame de Maintenon. THE accession of the Duke of Anjou to thet
. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER XIII Political Position of France—Illness of the Dauphin—LesDames de la Halle—A New Campaign—Affront to the Dukeof Chartres—His Increased Libertinage—Regal Retorts—Quarrel of the King and Monsieur—Indisposition of Monsieur ;His Death—Terror of Madame—Interview Between LouisXIV. and the Duke of Chartres—Want of Feeling of theKing—Grief of the Duchess of Bourgogne—The BrelanTable—Novel Position of the Duke of Chartres—Late Courtof Monsieur—Madame, and Madame de Maintenon. THE accession of the Duke of Anjou to thethrone of Spain had, meanwhile, destroyed theequilibrium of Europe, and William III., then recently-dead, but even beyond the grave the most resoluteenemy of Louis XIV., had bequeathed to him the newleague which bore the name of the Great Alliance,and which had for its aim to place the Spanish crownupon the head of the Archduke Charles, the son ofthe Emperor of Germany; or, in default of dispos-sessing Philip V. of his kingdom, to trace ro
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