. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. the king played, says the Palatine, andwhich he liked. To reversi succeeded brelan. The grand game of brelanis finished, writes Dangeau, under date of March, 1696. MM. de Vendome have gained more than 100,000 times the losses were enormous. Dangeau speaks of a lossof 10,000 pistoles, which wrould be 500,000 francs became fashionable about the same time, and keptits popularity for many years. Here in France, says thePalatine, in 1695, as soon as people assemble, they playlansquenet. That game is now the rage. They play forf
. Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. the king played, says the Palatine, andwhich he liked. To reversi succeeded brelan. The grand game of brelanis finished, writes Dangeau, under date of March, 1696. MM. de Vendome have gained more than 100,000 times the losses were enormous. Dangeau speaks of a lossof 10,000 pistoles, which wrould be 500,000 francs became fashionable about the same time, and keptits popularity for many years. Here in France, says thePalatine, in 1695, as soon as people assemble, they playlansquenet. That game is now the rage. They play forfrightful sums, and the players are like madmen; they shout,they strike the table with their fists, they swear in a fashionto make ones hair stand on end. They undoubtedly did soat St. Cloud and Meudon, where they had a free rein, but notat Versailles or Marly. The Palatine herself bears witnessto that: It was formerly the custom to swear horridly on alloccasions; the king detested this practice and soon abolished1250,000 francs to-day. 368. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne Pleasures of the Courtiers it. He could not stamp it out entirely any more than hecould dueling, but he abolished both as far as he could. Inthe kings houses, people did not dare to shout, and swear, andpound tables; but at Meudon and St. Cloud more than onefracas occurred. Saint-Simon mentions one at Meudon inAugust, 1698: * The Prince de Conti and the Grand Prieurwere playing hombre, and a dispute arose respecting thegame. The Grand Prieur, inflated by pride on account of thefavors the king had showered upon him, and rendered au-dacious by being placed almost on a level with the princes ofthe blood, used words which would have been too strongeven toward an equal. The Prince de Conti answered by arepartee in which the others honesty at play and courage inwar, both, in truth, little to boast about, were this the Grand Prieur flew into a passion, flung awaythe cards, and demanded sat
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