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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!
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.
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 Pellisson, 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 at Brelan."
Let me here say, that before the Prince and his spouse were buried, that is to say, the 6th of April, the King gave orders for the recommencement of the usual play at Marly; and that M. le Duc de Berry and Madame la Duchesse de Berry presided in the salon at the public lansquenet and brelan; and the different gaming tables for all the Court.
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.
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.
"He had not waited long when the folding-doors were thrown wide, and a moment after Louis appeared, accompanied by a single attendant, the Marquis de Verneuil, unhappily one of the very few enemies Arnoud possessed in the world. "'Ah, De Gency! you here? said the king, gayly. 'They told me "brelan" had been unfavorable lately, and that we should not see you.
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.
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