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On Saturday, the 19th of March, in the evening, the King was about to undress himself, when he heard cries in his chamber, which was full of courtiers; everybody calling for Fagon and Felix. Monseigneur had been taken very ill. He had passed the day at Meudon, where he had eaten only a collation; at the King's supper he had made amends by gorging himself nigh to bursting with fish.
His kind, strong, ugly face: it moved beside her: its fearless, tender eyes now pleading, now commanding. He needed her. She heard his passionate, low voice, as she had heard it in the little garden above Meudon: "Because you won't be there; and without you I can do nothing." What right had this poor, worn-out shadow to stand between them, to the end?
"I have a warrant to arrest Captain de Meudon, a French officer who is concealed here. Where is he?" I pointed to the bed. "I arrest you in the king's name!" said the sergeant, approaching. "What " He started back in horror. "He is dead!" Then entered one I had seen before Major Barton, the most pitiless of the government's agents in suppressing insurrection.
A Bread Riot, How Appeased. M. de Vendome out of Favour. Death and Character of the Prince de Conti. Fall of Vendome. Pursegur's Interview with the King. Madame de Bourgogne against Vendome. Her Decided Conduct. Vendome Excluded from Marly. He Clings to Meudon. From Which He is also Expelled. His Final Disgrace and Abandonment. Triumph of Madame de Maintenon. Death of Pere La Chaise.
Her Majesty the Empress will accompany His Majesty as far as Dresden, where she hopes to have the pleasure of seeing her August family. She will return in July at the latest. His Majesty the King of Rome will spend the summer at Meudon, where he has been for a month. He has finished his teething, and enjoys perfect health. He will be weaned at the end of the month."
M. le Dauphin, for, as I have said, it is by that title I shall now name Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne M. le Dauphin, I say, soon gained all hearts. In the first days of solitude following upon the death of Monseigneur, the King intimated to M. de Beauvilliers that he should not care to see the new Dauphin go very often to Meudon. This was enough.
Down one street and through a narrow lane we thundered, until a broken gateway stopped with fascines through which the Cid blundered and stumbled brought us at a bound into the Scholars' Meadow just as the tardy sun broke through the clouds and flooded the low, wide plain with brightness. Half a league in front of us the towers of Meudon rose to view on a hill.
His cook was an excommunicated monk from Touraine, a province, according to the merry Vicar of Meudon, in which cooks, like poets, were born, not bred.
Dear Sir, May I request the honor of a visit from you this evening at the Hôtel de Grammont? Truly yours, Marie d'Auvergne, née De Meudon. Colonel Burke. How did I read these lines over again and again! now interpreting them as messengers of future hope; now fearing they might exclude every ray of it forever. One solution recurred to me at every moment, and tortured me to the very soul.
Nevertheless, I went, once upon a time, out of good nature, with a young friend of mine, who was my companion in prison, to visit Meudon and Saint-Germain. My friend was a very pleasant, good girl, whom they called Sweet-throat, because she was always singing." "And what has become of her?" "I do not know.
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