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"No one ever was like him," said Anne. "I could not mistake him." "May I ask mademoiselle to describe him?" continued the count. Feeling all the time as if this first mention were a sort of betrayal, Anne faltered the words: "Small, slight, almost misshapen with a strange one-sided look odd, unusual features." Lauzun's laugh jarred on her. "Eh! it is not a flattering portrait.
This way of arguing might be applied with fatal effect to the Duc de Lauzun's "Memoirs," supposing them written with a view to publication. But, by possibility, that was not the case.
He could not bear him, because Montespan and that old Maintenon had made him believe the youth was not his but the Duc de Lauzun's child. It had been well if all the King's reputed children had been as surely his as this was. Madame de La Valliere was no light mistress, as her unwavering penitence sufficiently proved. She was an amiable, gentle, kind and tender woman.
And with children by this marriage, what a flight might not Lauzun have taken, and who can say where he might have arrived? I have elsewhere related Lauzun's humours, his notable wanton tricks, and his rare singularity.
He experienced none of the extraordinary phenomena usually attributed to the consumption of this drug, his explanation being that the dose was too weak, or his brain too strong. However, he owned to having heard celestial voices and to having seen divine paintings while he descended Lauzun's staircase, in a promenade that seemed to have lasted twenty years.
This was all the thanks M. de Villeroy obtained from M. de Lauzun for the honours he had paid him; and this was M. de Lauzun's consolation for his ill-success at Aix- la-Chapelle. In Italy our armies were not more successful than elsewhere.
Illness and Death of Dubois. Account of His Riches. His Wife. His Character. Anecdotes. Madame de Conflans. Relief of the Regent and the King. Death of Lauzun. His Extraordinary Adventures. His Success at Court. Appointment to the Artillery. Counter worked by Louvois. Lauzun and Madame de Montespan. Scene with the King. Mademoiselle and Madame de Monaco. Lauzun's Magnificence.
Having made mutual avowal of their passion, which was fill of esteem, Lauzun inquired, merely from motives of caution, as to the Princess's fortune; and she did not fail to tell him everything, even about her plate and jewels. Lauzun's love grew even more ardent now, for she had at least forty millions, not counting her palace.
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