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Queen out of Pique. Letter from the Queen of Portugal. The Ingratitude of M. de Lauzun. Twice during the captivity of M. de Lauzun the Queen of Portugal had charged her ambassador to carry to the King that young sovereign's solicitations in favour of the disgraced gentleman.

Monseigneur burst out laughing at this sally, and all the company followed his example, in the midst of which M. de Lauzun turned on his heel and left the room. His joke soon spread all over the Court and the town, and in the evening was told to the King.

Queen out of Pique. Letter from the Queen of Portugal. The Ingratitude of M. de Lauzun. Twice during the captivity of M. de Lauzun the Queen of Portugal had charged her ambassador to carry to the King that young sovereign's solicitations in favour of the disgraced gentleman.

Duponceau, of the Marquis de Lafayette's staff, was competent in both French and English, but, save one other officer, no one of his Excellency's staff spoke and wrote French well; and this aide was, as a consequence, much overworked. Seeing this difficulty, which occasioned much confusion, the Duc de Lauzun suggested that I be asked to serve as a special aide-de-camp.

This is how you ought rather to have expressed yourself: 'I complain of Madame de Maintenon, who, by ambiguous words, has given offence, or wished to give offence to my wife." Monsieur made up his mind to laugh, and said no more of it. The Marquis de Lauzun at Liberty. His Conduct to His Wife. Recovery of Mademoiselle.

These were all the thanks the Queen got for her efforts; and, like Mademoiselle de Montpensier, she detested, with all her soul, the man she had loved with all her heart. The Marquis de Lauzun was one of the handsomest men in the world; but his character spoiled everything. The Nephews, the Nieces, the Cousins and the Brother of Madame de Maintenon. The King's Debut. The Marshal's Silver Staff.

The company he saw apparently displeased him; for he went away to Torcy, with whom I had no intimacy, and who was also at table, with many people opposed to M. le Duc d'Orleans, Tallard, among others, and Tesse. "Monsieur," said Lauzun to Torcy, with a gentle and timid air, familiar to him, "take pity upon me, I have just tried to dine with M. de Saint- Simon.

The Abbe d'Estrees passed for being in the Church what M. de Lauzun was in society, a man who always met with success, and who also was madly ambitious. While still very young, he had been appointed to the bishopric of Laon, which, in conjunction with two splendid abbeys, brought him in a handsome revenue.

I cry to myself; and then I hasten myself to reply to the unknown lady. Will she permit me to see her? With all politeness I make the request; with all politeness it is answered. The lady calls herself Mademoiselle Servin. She resides in the street Grande-Mademoiselle, at the corner of the Place Lauzun. It is of all the streets of Paris the most miserable. One side is already removed.

The story got abroad, and M. le Duc d'Orleans repaired his forgetfulness by the bishopric of Laon, and upon the refusal of M. de Marseilles to change, gave him a fat abbey. M. de Lauzun hindered also a promotion of Marshal of France by the ridicule he cast upon the candidates. I have elsewhere related other of his witty remarks.