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Updated: June 16, 2025
There, I behold TURENNE, CONDE, MONTAUSIER, COLBERT, MOLIERE, CORNEILLE, LA FONTAINE, RACINE, FENELON, and BOILEAU. The great LEWIS XIV, placed in the middle of this hall, seems to become still greater near those immortal geniuses. Farther on, we see the statue of the implacable RICHELIEU, represented expiring in the arms of Religion, while Science is weeping at his feet.
Next day, Madame de Montausier came to see me at my country-house; she told me of the general rumour that was afloat at Court.
"Do you remember," said Flechier, many years later, in his funeral oration on the death of the Duchesse de Montausier, "the salons which are still regarded with so much veneration, where the spirit was purified, where virtue was revered under the name of the incomparable Arthenice; where people of merit and quality assembled, who composed a select court, numerous without confusion, modest without constraint, learned without pride, polished without affectation?"
Those spiteful persons who told the Queen how obliging the Duchesse de Montausier had shown herself towards me were also so extremely kind as to write an account of the whole affair to the Marquis de Montespan. At that time he was still in Paris, and one day he went to the Duchess just as she was getting out of bed.
She had the honour of dining with the Queen, and then she returned to the little chateau of Versailles, so as to be near her children. The King arranged with Madame de Montausier, lady-in-waiting to the Queen, that I should use her rooms to dress and write in, and that his Majesty should be free to come there when he liked, and have a quiet chat with me about matters of interest.
Louis, as the sequel to an overture made to him by several nobles collectively, friends of Lauzun, with M. de Montausier at their head, granted his permission.
Next day, Madame de Montausier came to see me at my country-house; she told me of the general rumour that was afloat at Court.
"Oh, sire, make yourself easy; the governor has no inclination to follow the steps of Montausier or Beauvilliers. In truth you are very candid; and I must tell you, that you have too good an opinion of us." At this moment M. de la Vauguyon entered. He saluted the king with humility; and asked him, in a mild tone of voice, what his pleasure was with him.
I think he was the most amusing talker I ever heard, only there was a great spice of malice in all that he said or did not say; and Madame de Montausier kept him in check, as she well knew how to do. At last, to my great joy, I saw my brother walking with a young man in the black dress of an advocate.
Accordingly the young gentleman was sent at fifteen to France. He resided some time in the neighbourhood of the Duke of Montausier, chief of one of the noblest families of Touraine. The Duke's wife, a daughter of the house of Rambouillet, was a finished specimen of those talents and accomplishments for which her race was celebrated.
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