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She also sat in the royal council, a position which, as a king’s mistress, she was the first to occupy, though we know that Henri II. took no step without first conferring with Diane de Poitiers, and that Madame de Maintenon sat in Louis the Fourteenth’s privy council. The change which came over France after the Treaty of Tours was marvellous, alike in its extent and its rapidity.
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