. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER VIII Interior Economy of Madame de Maintenon—Divisions in theRoyal Family—The Palace Etiquette—Madame de MaintenonAttempts Her Public Recognition—Opposition of Louvois—The Satires of Meudon—The English Letter—Death ofCharles II. of England—The Prince of Orange—Arrival ofJames II. and His Queen in France—The Duke of Lauzun—Munificence of Louis XIV.—Mary of Modena—Indispositionof Louis XIV.—Restlessness of Madame de Montespan—Marriage of Mademoiselle de Nantes and the Duke of Bour-bon Conde—The Window of the Trian

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. Louis the Fourteenth and the court of France in the seventeenth century. CHAPTER VIII Interior Economy of Madame de Maintenon—Divisions in theRoyal Family—The Palace Etiquette—Madame de MaintenonAttempts Her Public Recognition—Opposition of Louvois—The Satires of Meudon—The English Letter—Death ofCharles II. of England—The Prince of Orange—Arrival ofJames II. and His Queen in France—The Duke of Lauzun—Munificence of Louis XIV.—Mary of Modena—Indispositionof Louis XIV.—Restlessness of Madame de Montespan—Marriage of Mademoiselle de Nantes and the Duke of Bour-bon Conde—The Window of the Trianon—The Civil War inthe Cevennes—Fete at Versailles—Departure of the YoungNobility for the German Army—Prince Eugene—Imprudenceof Louvois—Intercepted Letters—The Princess of Conti—Mademoiselle de Chion and M. de Clermont—Death ofConde—The Hermitage of Marly. WE have already stated that immediately uponher marriage, Madame de Maintenon, beingunable to bear the Royal arms upon her equipages,compromised the difficulty by s

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