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Before rising from the dinner table, at a little after two o'clock, and twenty-six hours after the death of Monsieur, Monseigneur the Duc de Bourgogne asked the Duc de Montfort if he would play at brelan. "At brelan!" cried Montfort, in extreme astonishment; "you cannot mean it! Monsieur is still warm." "Pardon me," replied the Prince, "I do mean it though.
The King does not wish that we should be dull here at Marly, and has ordered me to make everybody play; and, for fear that nobody should dare to begin, to set, myself, the example;" and with this he began to play at brelan; and the salon was soon filled with gaming tables. Such was the affection of the King: such that of Madame de Maintenon!
The 'brelan' over, she ran to Madame de Maintenon; told her what had just occurred; said that the presence of M. de Vendome at Marly was a continual insult to her; and begged her to solicit the King to forbid M. de Vendome to come there.
Monseigneur de Bourgogne supported this his piety made him do so but Madame de Bourgogne was grievously offended, and watched her opportunity to get rid of M. de Vendome altogether. It came, the first journey the King made to Marly after Easter. 'Brelan' was then the fashion.
Having dismissed her other women, she said to me, "I think I never saw anybody so insolent as Madame de Coaslin. I was seated at the same table with her this evening, at a game of 'brelan', and you cannot imagine what I suffered. The men and women seemed to come in relays to watch us. Madame de Coaslin said two or three times, looking at me, 'Va tout', in the most insulting manner.
Playing at brelan one evening, she offered him a stake, and because he would not accept it bantered him, and playfully called him a poltroon.
Having dismissed her other women, she said to me, "I think I never saw anybody so insolent as Madame de Coaslin. I was seated at the same table with her this evening, at a game of 'brelan', and you cannot imagine what I suffered. The men and women seemed to come in relays to watch us. Madame de Coaslin said two or three times, looking at me, 'Va tout', in the most insulting manner.
"I have not observed their absence," said Pelisson, who, at this moment, was turning his back to Fouquet, and walking the other way. "I do not see M. Lyodot," said Sorel, "who pays me my pension." "And I," said the abbe, at the window, "do not see M. d'Eymeris, who owes me eleven hundred livres from our last game of brelan."
I thought I should have fainted, when she said, in a triumphant tone, I have the 'brelan' of kings. I wish you had seen her courtesy to me on parting." "Did the King," said I, "show her particular attention?" "You don't know him," said she; "if he were going to lodge her this very night in my apartment, he would behave coldly to her before people, and would treat me with the utmost kindness.
Monseigneur de Bourgogne supported this his piety made him do so but Madame de Bourgogne was grievously offended, and watched her opportunity to get rid of M. de Vendome altogether. It came, the first journey the King made to Marly after Easter. 'Brelan' was then the fashion.
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