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'It is Langl4e, says the king; 'it is Langlee. 'Of course, says Madame de Montespan, 'none but he could have devised such a device; it is Langlee, it is Langlee. Everybody repeats, 'it is Langlee; the echoes are agreed and say, 'it is Langlee; and as for me, my child, I tell you, to be in the fashion, 'it is Langlle. "
He joined in all the King's parties, at the time of his mistresses. Similarity of tastes attached Langlee to Monsieur, but he never lost sight of the King.
At all the fetes Langlee was present, he took part in the journeys, he was invited to Marly, was intimate with all the King's mistresses; then with all the daughters of the King, with whom indeed he was so familiar that he often spoke to them with the utmost freedom.
"M. de Langlee has given Madame de Montespan a dress of the most divine material ever imagined; the fairies did this work in secret, no living soul had any notion of it; and it seemed good to present it as mysteriously as it had been fashioned.
Thus, in a few weeks, Madame la Duchesse found herself free of debts, without anybody whom she feared having known even of their existence. Langlee was entrusted with the payment and arrangement of these debts. He was a singular kind of man at the Court, and deserves a word.
He joined in all the King's parties, at the time of his mistresses. Similarity of tastes attached Langlee to Monsieur, but he never lost sight of the King.
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Thus, in a few weeks, Madame la Duchesse found herself free of debts, without anybody whom she feared having known even of their existence. Langlee was entrusted with the payment and arrangement of these debts. He was a singular kind of man at the Court, and deserves a word.
At all the fetes Langlee was present, he took part in the journeys, he was invited to Marly, was intimate with all the King's mistresses; then with all the daughters of the King, with whom indeed he was so familiar that he often spoke to them with the utmost freedom.
The whole mind of the greatest personages, his favorites at the head, was set upon devising means of pleasing the king; Madame de Montespan had pictures painted in miniature of all the towns he had taken in Holland; they were made into a book which was worth four thousand pistoles, and of which Racine and Boileau wrote the text; people of tact, like M. de Langlee, paid court to the master through those whom he loved.
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