. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. bers, 3 watchmakers, 1 dentist, 6 gargons, 2 chair-bearers,10 furniture-men. The king treated his valets well,,, says Saint-Simon, above all those of the Household. It was among them thathe felt most at ease, and that he unbosomed himself the mostfamiliarly, especially to the chiefs. Their friendship andtheir aversion have often had grand results. They wereunceasingly in a position to render good and bad offices; thusthey recalled those powerful enfranchised slaves of the Ro-man emperors, to whom the senate and the great people paidcourt and basely t
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. bers, 3 watchmakers, 1 dentist, 6 gargons, 2 chair-bearers,10 furniture-men. The king treated his valets well,,, says Saint-Simon, above all those of the Household. It was among them thathe felt most at ease, and that he unbosomed himself the mostfamiliarly, especially to the chiefs. Their friendship andtheir aversion have often had grand results. They wereunceasingly in a position to render good and bad offices; thusthey recalled those powerful enfranchised slaves of the Ro-man emperors, to whom the senate and the great people paidcourt and basely truckled. These valets during Louis XIVsreign were not less courted. The ministers, even the mostpowerful, openly studied their caprices, and the princes of theblood, not to mention people of lower grade, did the majority were accordingly insolent enough, and if youcould not avoid their insolence, ^ou were forced to put upwith it/1 The three first valets de chambre who had gained the kings1 Saint-Simon, II, p. - ov; — n o. The Service of the King confidence most fully were Blouin, Niert, and, above all,Bontemps, governor of Versailles. The latter was an ex-cellent servant, and stood so well with the king that he wasone of the witnesses at the marriage of the Grand Monarchand Madame de Maintenon. There was likewise the music of the Chamber, controlledby two superintendents, and consisting of composers, singers,musicians, 24 violins, 12 trumpeters, 4 drummers, 4 fife-players, etc. To the service of the Chamber belonged alsothe kings medical attendants, a first doctor, a doctor inordinary, 8 doctors serving by the quarter, a first surgeon,a surgeon in ordinary, 8 surgeons serving by the quarter, andthe physicians in the infirmary of the Maison du Roi. Thekings first doctor during the last twenty years of his life wasM. Fagon, who owed his appointment to the influence ofMadame de Maintenon. Daquin, first doctor of the kingand creature of Madame de Montespan, had l
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