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His Infirmities in Old Age. Partiality of the King. Character of Pere La Chaise. The Jesuits. Choice of a New Confessor. Fagon's Opinion. Destruction of Port Royal. Jansenists and Molinists. Pascal. Violent Oppression of the Inhabitants of Port Royal. Death of D'Avaux. A Quarrel about a Window. Louvois and the King. Anecdote of Boisseuil. Madame de Maintenon and M. de Beauvilliers.
He was feared; and he said to women whatever came uppermost when the fury of a cut-throat seized him. During a journey the King and Court made to Nancy, Boisseuil one evening sat down to play in the house of one of the courtiers. A player happened to be there who played very high. Boisseuil lost a good deal, and was very angry.
As he was leaving the door he found a man stuck against the wall it was the player who called him to account for the insult he had received. Boisseuil replied that he should give him no satisfaction, and that he was a rogue. "That may be," said the player, "but I don't like to be told so." They went away directly and fought. Boisseuil received two wounds, from one of which he was like to die.
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