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Updated: June 15, 2025
So many tongues, vowing devotion and respectful love to the great king in his six-inch wig; and only poor La Valliere's amongst them all which had a word of truth for the dull ears of Louis of Bourbon. * They made a Jesuit of him on his death-bed.
"Well! all you would have to do would be to get hold of a journeyman carpenter, lock him up in your apartments, without letting him know where you have taken him to, and let him make a hole in your ceiling, and consequently in the flooring of Mademoiselle de la Valliere's room." "Good heavens!" exclaimed Saint-Aignan, as if dazzled. "What is the matter?" said Malicorne.
The king walked hastily, because of his impatience, and the long legs of Saint-Aignan, who preceded him. At the door, however, Saint-Aignan wished to retire, but the king desired him to remain; a delicate consideration, on the king's part, which the courtier could very well have dispensed with. He had to follow Louis into La Valliere's apartment.
"What! up there," exclaimed Saint-Aignan, with surprise, and pointing at the floor above him with his finger. "No," said Malicorne, "yonder," indicating the building opposite. "What do you mean, then, by saying that her room is above my apartment?" "Because I am sure that your apartment ought, providentially, to be under Mademoiselle de la Valliere's room."
Ever since La Valliere's lasting triumph, the Queen seems to have got it into her head that she is despised; and at table I have often heard her say, "They will help themselves to everything, and won't leave me anything." I am not unjust, and I admit that a husband's public attachments are not exactly calculated to fill his legitimate consort with joy.
The young girl obeyed with the utmost precipitation, the king having moved from his seat, and La Valliere being in no little degree nervous and confused. "Ah! I beg your majesty's pardon," said Mademoiselle de Chatillon; "you have two handkerchiefs, I perceive." And the king was accordingly obliged to put into his pocket La Valliere's handkerchief as well as his own.
When La Valliere's carriage passed, the king approached it, saluted the ladies who were inside, and was preparing to accompany the carriage containing the maids of honor, in the same way he had followed that in which Madame was, when suddenly the whole file of carriages stopped.
He used to pass through La Valliere's chamber to go to Montespan's; and one day, at the instigation of the latter, he threw a little spaniel, which he had called Malice, at the Duchesse de La Valliere, saying: "There, Madam, is your companion; that's all." This was the more cruel, as he was then going direct to Montespan's chamber.
Birth of the Duc du Maine. Marriage of the Nun. The King became ever more attached to me personally, as also to the peculiarities of my temperament. He had witnessed with satisfaction the birth of Madame de la Valliere's two children, and I thought that he would have the same affection for mine. But I was wrong.
There happened to be in La Valliere's room a miniature of Athos. The king remarked that this portrait bore a strong resemblance to Bragelonne, for it had been taken when the count was quite a young man. He looked at it with a threatening air. La Valliere, in her misery far indeed from thinking of this portrait, could not conjecture the cause of the king's preoccupation.
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