. Louis the Fourteenth, and the court of France in the seventeenth century. ce and impetuosityof his character. But ere long it was ascertained that,having secured the services of a needy priest by a largebribe, he had accomplished his marriage with the in-fatuated Princess in secret—a fact of which the Kingno sooner became cognisant than he caused him to bearrested and conveyed to the fortress of Pignerol,where, while Mademoiselle was consuming her daysin an uncontrolled grief that soon destroyed everytrace of the good looks upon which she still pridedherself, and lamenting to every one by wh
. Louis the Fourteenth, and the court of France in the seventeenth century. ce and impetuosityof his character. But ere long it was ascertained that,having secured the services of a needy priest by a largebribe, he had accomplished his marriage with the in-fatuated Princess in secret—a fact of which the Kingno sooner became cognisant than he caused him to bearrested and conveyed to the fortress of Pignerol,where, while Mademoiselle was consuming her daysin an uncontrolled grief that soon destroyed everytrace of the good looks upon which she still pridedherself, and lamenting to every one by whom she wasapproached her cruel separation from her dear andtender friend, the prisoner, the Duke himself wascommitting every description of excess of which hisposition was susceptible, and dissipating in gaming andthe most inane frivolities the immense sums of moneysecretly conveyed to him by the Princess; and when-ever he found his funds exhausted, consoling himselfby saying to his friends, The old woman will send usa fresh supply. * * Memoires de Madame de CHAPTER XI Death of the Duke of Beaufort in Candia—Birth of the Dukeof Maine—Prosperity of the French Nation—Monsieur De-mands a Government and a Fauteuil—Insidious Advice ofthe Chevalier de Lorraine—The Vacant Abbey—Arrest ofM. de Lorraine—Resentment of Monsieur—The ChevaHer atIf_Monsieur at Court—Louis XIV. Resolves on the Con-quest of Holland—Venality of Charles II,—A Female Am-bassadress—Royal Progress—Mademoiselle de Kerouaile—Successful Negotiation—The Court Return to Paris—Courtof Madame at St. Cloud—Discontent of Monsieur—MariaTheresa—Illness of Madame—The Succoury Water—Deathof Madame—The Poisoners—Indignation of the King—TheController of the Household—Death of the Chevalier deLorraine. WE have, however, anticipated the stream of ournarrative, in order not to interrupt the historyof this extraordinary attachment; for great and melan-choly events occurr
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