. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER XI Family Circle of Madame de Maintenon—The Count of Au-bigne ; His Excesses—The Truncheon in Specie—The Mar-riage-Promise—His Enforced Retirement; His Evasion-Marriage of the Duke of Lauzun—Disappointment of theBride—Arrival of the Princess Adelaide of Savoy in France—Treaty of Riswick—Death of James II.—Household ofthe Future Duchess of Bourgogne—Indisposition of theKing—Advantages of a Tete-a-tete—Premature Salutations—The Duchess of Lude—Reception of the Princess—TheCourt at Versailles—Letter to the Duchess
. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER XI Family Circle of Madame de Maintenon—The Count of Au-bigne ; His Excesses—The Truncheon in Specie—The Mar-riage-Promise—His Enforced Retirement; His Evasion-Marriage of the Duke of Lauzun—Disappointment of theBride—Arrival of the Princess Adelaide of Savoy in France—Treaty of Riswick—Death of James II.—Household ofthe Future Duchess of Bourgogne—Indisposition of theKing—Advantages of a Tete-a-tete—Premature Salutations—The Duchess of Lude—Reception of the Princess—TheCourt at Versailles—Letter to the Duchess of Savoy—Madame de Maintenon Educates the Princess ; Her Docil-ity—Return of Mademoiselle de Choin to Meudon ; HerSupposed Marriage with the Dauphin ; Her Harshness—Extravagant Preparations for the Marriage of the Dukeof Bourgogne; His Portrait—The Kings Ball—CourtFelons—The Hat-Bearer—The Fatal Prophecy. THE sufferings to which we have alluded in speak-ing of Madame de Maintenon were not, how-ever, the only ones to which sh
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