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At Marly and Versailles she was obliged to go to chapel on foot and without her stays, and seat herself near the femmes de chambre. At Madame de Maintenon's there was no observance of ranks; every one sat down there promiscuously; she did this for the purpose of avoiding all discussion respecting her own rank.
The Prisoner of the Bastille. The Danger of Caricatures. The Administrative Thermometer. Actors Who Can neither Be Applauded nor Hissed. Relapse of the Prisoner. Scarron's Will. A Fine Subject for Engraving. Madame de Maintenon's Opinion upon the Jesuits. The Audience of the Green Salon. Portions from the Refectory. Madame de Maintenon's Presence of Mind. I Will Make You Schoolmaster.
The Prisoner of the Bastille. The Danger of Caricatures. The Administrative Thermometer. Actors Who Can neither Be Applauded nor Hissed. Relapse of the Prisoner. Scarron's Will. A Fine Subject for Engraving. Madame de Maintenon's Opinion upon the Jesuits. The Audience of the Green Salon. Portions from the Refectory. Madame de Maintenon's Presence of Mind. I Will Make You Schoolmaster.
Upon hearing this news, the King, who had been accustomed to fly to visit Monsieur for a mere nothing, went to Madame de Maintenon's, and had her waked up.
On Saturday, the 10th of August, he walked before dinner in his gardens at Marly; he returned to Versailles about six o'clock in the evening, and never again saw that strange work of his hands. In the evening he worked with the Chancellor in Madame de Maintenon's rooms, and appeared to everybody very ill.
Upon hearing this news, the King, who had been accustomed to fly to visit Monsieur for a mere nothing, went to Madame de Maintenon's, and had her waked up.
"Why not depend on himself?" "Oh, he couldn't! He couldn't! She had character and he hadn't." "What do you mean by character?" he challenged her. "It's what I haven't!" she said. He attempted a chivalrous exculpation. "Oh, if you mean by character such hard, insensitive lack of imagination as Madame de Maintenon's " "No, not that," said Sylvia. "You know what I mean by character as well as I."
Madame, instead of being treated at her husband's death according to her marriage contract, and forced to retire into a convent, or into the old castle of Montargis, was, in spite of Madame de Maintenon's hatred, maintained by Louis XIV. in all the titles and honors which she enjoyed during her husband's lifetime, although the king had not forgotten the blow which she gave to the young Duc de Chartres at Versailles, when he announced his marriage with Mademoiselle de Blois.
"Nevertheless, spite of all these observances, his undertakings did not invariably succeed, which astonished him greatly; when one day the great Bossuet, happening to be at madame de Maintenon's, the conversation turned upon magic and sorcery, necromancy and their horrible profanations; and he expressed himself with so much force and energy, that the king and madame de Maintenon looked at each other without knowing what to say, and began, for the first time, to feel compunction for what they had done, and to regret their imprudence.
The hour of vespers being come, we were conducted to the chapel, and, as it was my curiosity that had led us thither, I was placed in the Maintenon's own tribune; my company in the adjoining gallery. The pensioners, two and two, each band headed by a man, march orderly to their seats, and sing the whole service, which I confess was not a little tedious.
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