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Updated: June 14, 2025
Although the Belle-Isle plot backfired, Colbert prompts the king to ask Fouquet for more and more money, and without his two friends to raise it for him, Fouquet is sorely pressed. The situation gets so bad that his new mistress, Madame de Belliere, must resort to selling all her jewels and her gold and silver plate.
"I am getting ready to leave for Belliere." "For Belliere?" "Yes." "You are becoming rustic in your tastes, then; I delight to see you so disposed. But you are pale." "No, I am perfectly well." "So much the better; I was becoming uneasy about you. You do not know what I have been told." "People say so many things." "Yes, but this is very singular."
Another doubt, and that a cruel one, suggested itself to Madame de Belliere with a sharp, acute pain, like a dagger thrust. Did he really love her? Would that volatile mind, that inconstant heart, be likely to be fixed for a moment, even were it to gaze upon an angel?
"Yes, madame; but it was not expected that your ladyship would leave for Belliere for the next few days." "All my jewels and articles of value, then, are packed up?" "Yes, madame; but hitherto we have been in the habit of leaving them in Paris. Your ladyship does not generally take your jewels with you into the country." "But they are all in order, you say?" "Yes, in your ladyship's own room."
"The amount is entered in my books. Your ladyship is extremely methodical, I am aware." "Let us now turn to another subject," said Madame de Belliere; and she opened one of her jewel-boxes. "I recognize these emeralds," said M. Faucheux; "for it was I who had the setting of them. They are the most beautiful in the whole court.
Madame Fouquet rushed downstairs, calling for her horses; Madame de Belliere flew after her, catching her in her arms, and saying: "Madame, in the name of his safety, do not betray anything, do not manifest alarm." Pelisson ran to have the horses put to the carriages.
"Bread," murmured Madame Fouquet. "Relays," said Pelisson, "relays, and fly!" "Whither?" "To Switzerland to Savoy but fly!" "If monseigneur flies," said Madame Belliere, "it will be said that he was guilty was afraid." "More than that, it will be said that I have carried away twenty millions with me." "We will draw up memoirs to justify you," said La Fontaine. "Fly!"
"Are you surprised, then, that I am still thinking of Saint-Mande?" "Of Saint-Mande?" exclaimed Madame de Belliere; and the looks of both women met each other like two resistless swords. "You, so proud!" said the marquise, disdainfully. "I, so proud!" replied Madame Vanel. "Such is my nature. I do not forgive neglect I cannot endure infidelity.
They placed it in a small cabinet, anteroom, or boudoir rather, adjoining the saloon where we once saw M. Fouquet at the marquise's feet. Madame de Belliere gave the coachman a louis, smiled gracefully at the clerk, and dismissed them both. She closed the door after them, and waited in the room, alone and barricaded.
This time the door opened upon a handsome cabinet sumptuously furnished, in which was seated upon cushions a lady of surpassing beauty, who at the sound of the lock sprang towards Fouquet. "Ah! good heavens!" cried the latter, starting back with astonishment. "Madame la Marquise de Belliere, you here?" "Yes," murmured la marquise. "Yes; it is I, monsieur."
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