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Updated: June 22, 2025
"She is said to have great beauty," answered Joseph; "that is a precious gift for a family. She might have been presented at court, and the King Ah! ah! Mademoiselle de la Fayette eh! eh! Mademoiselle d'Hautefort you understand; it may be even possible to think of it yet."
Mdlle. d'Hautefort declined it, and remained seated, like her companions, on the ground; but henceforth the courtiers' eyes were riveted on her movements, on the interminable conversations in which she was detained by the king, on his jealousies, his tiffs, and his reconciliations.
I was released in eight days, and thought myself very fortunate to escape at a period when none others were set at liberty. But my disgrace was well repaid. The queen showed herself gratefully aware of all that I had suffered in her service; Mademoiselle d'Hautefort gave full expression to her esteem and friendship; and Madame de Chevreuse was not less gracious.
But Louis XIII. had learned the charm of confidence and intimacy; and he turned to Louise de La Fayette, a charming girl of seventeen, who was as virtuous as Mdlle. d'Hautefort, but more gentle and tender than she, and who gave her heart in all guilelessness to that king so powerful, so a-weary, and so melancholy at the very climax of his reign.
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