Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the times of Louis XIVand the regencyTranslated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edcollated with the original manuscript by MChéruelIllustrated with portsFrom the original . o be made marshal of France. She cous-ined and brought forward and took immense interestin all who had the honour to belong to her, being in this,though very haughty, entirely difierent from what theprinces of the blood have now become in that wore mourning scrupidously for very ordinary andeven very distant relatives, often explaining how and whythey we
Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the times of Louis XIVand the regencyTranslated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edcollated with the original manuscript by MChéruelIllustrated with portsFrom the original . o be made marshal of France. She cous-ined and brought forward and took immense interestin all who had the honour to belong to her, being in this,though very haughty, entirely difierent from what theprinces of the blood have now become in that wore mourning scrupidously for very ordinary andeven very distant relatives, often explaining how and whythey were so. Monsieur and Madame never left her duringher illness. Besides the intimacy that had always existed,under all circumstances, between herself and Monsieur, thelatter was hovering over her rich inheritance, and was, infact, her residuary legatee. But the fattest morsels hadescaped him. The published Memoirs of this princess reveal plainlyher weakness for M. de Lauzun, and the folly of the latterfor not marrying her the moment he obtained the kings per-mission, in order to do so with more pomp and despair at the withdrawal of the kings permission wasextreme, but the donations given under the marriage con-. ^//y .y/?/////// ? / f////f ////?/.)/ /// 1G93] IVIEMOIKS OF THE DUG DE SAINT-SIMON. 59 tract were already made, and confirmed by other , prompted by M. le Prince, had urged the kingto retract; but Madame de Montespan and M. de Louvoishad even greater influence, and on them fell all the fury ofMademoiselle and the rage of the favourite, for M. de Lauzunwas really that. Though not for long ; he burst forth morethan once to the king, and oftener still to the mistress, andgave fine chances to the minister to ruin him. It endedfinally in his being arrested and sent to Pignerol, where hewas extremely ill-treated by Louvois orders and remainedfor ten years. Mademoiselles love did not cool during hisabsence. It was turned to profit in order to make
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