. Old Paris : its court and literary salons . r, he was astonishedat his sons audacity, and at once despatched himto Paris, forbidding him to return to Fontaine-bleau. Monsieur also objected to the kingsattentions to his wifes maid of honour, anddissatisfaction was general. La Valliere, saysMadame de La Fayette, was Douce et naive, etavait pen de foiiiDie; and another writer adds,Fade, boiteiise, et marqiiee de la petite was unused to court life, and, flattered bythe attentions of the king, fell deeply in love withhim. He was not then in love with her; but theaffair of the king and
. Old Paris : its court and literary salons . r, he was astonishedat his sons audacity, and at once despatched himto Paris, forbidding him to return to Fontaine-bleau. Monsieur also objected to the kingsattentions to his wifes maid of honour, anddissatisfaction was general. La Valliere, saysMadame de La Fayette, was Douce et naive, etavait pen de foiiiDie; and another writer adds,Fade, boiteiise, et marqiiee de la petite was unused to court life, and, flattered bythe attentions of the king, fell deeply in love withhim. He was not then in love with her; but theaffair of the king and Madame followed too closeupon her marriage with Monsieur to allow of anycredit being given to the story that Fouquet hadbeen La Vallieres lover, and had already a por-trait of her hanging in his cabinet. Fouquet, at the time of the Fronde, took theroyalist side. He was a partizan of Mazarin, andaided in smoothing the way for his return toFrance. Scarron was odious to him, and hisWidow applied to him in vain for a pension. Xouiee OLa IDalUcre. DIVERSITY OF OPINION I 53 It was at the instance of the Chevalier de Merithat the queen-mother continued to her the pen-sion of 2,000 fr. she had granted to again passed away from her on the queensdeath, and was renewed only after the lapse ofsome years, at Madame de Montespans solicita-tion. It was, therefore, as unlikely that Fouquetpossessed the portrait of Madame Scarron as thatof Mdlle. de La Valliere. The memoirs of thetime, that refer to these affairs of gallantry, asthey are termed, cannot be wholly relied , bitterness of spirit, wounded vanity,guided the pens of many writers; gross flattery,adulation, and a desire to appear to have been atthe bottom of every secret, characterize , sees nothing but vice and deformity; an-other, nothing but virtue and beauty, and in theself-same person. This, however, is certain —society of every grade was thoroughly corrupt;rotten at the core. Red-heeled boots
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