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Updated: May 14, 2025
When the Queen heard courtiers repeat some of the droll, witty sayings of the Comte de Vegin, or the Duc du Maine, she reddened with jealousy, and remarked, "Everybody goes into ecstasies about those children, while Monsieur le Dauphin is never even mentioned."
Embassy of the King of Arda. Political Influence Exercised by the Good Looks of Madame de Montespan. Gifts of the Envoys. What the Comte de Vegin Takes for a Horse. Madame de Montespan Entertains Them in Her Own House. Three Missionaries Recommend Her to Them. From the wilds of Africa, the King of Arda sent an embassy no less brilliant and far more singular than that of the Turks.
"Madame, we will make you our judge in the argument that we are now having," said his Majesty. "Do you think there is any objection to our giving to little Vegin the dress of an abbe?"
"Madame, we will make you our judge in the argument that we are now having," said his Majesty. "Do you think there is any objection to our giving to little Vegin the dress of an abbe?"
"If our religion be a true one, God himself is at the head of it, and for so supreme a Chief the sons of kings are but of small account." With an argument such as this she closed my mouth, leaving me quite amazed, and next day she smiled with delight when she presented the little Comte de Vegin dressed as a little abbe.
The essential thing for a parent is to study carefully and in good time the proper vocation for his children; the essential thing for the ruler of an Empire is to employ the right people to do the work in hand." "Will my son, on receiving this abbey, have to wear the dress of his office?" I asked. "Imagine the Comte de Vegin an abbe!"
The Comte de Vegin had been born, and the Queen was absolutely ignorant of his existence. My pregnancy with the Duc du Maine had likewise escaped her notice, owing to the large paniers which I took to wearing, and thus made the fashion. But the Court is a place where the best of friends are traitors.
"Madame, these are my views," he answered: "If the Comte de Vegin as he grows up should continue to show pluck and a taste for things military, as by birth he is bound to do, we will relieve him of the abbey on the eve of his marriage, while he will have profited thereby up to that time.
Through the interpreter, they replied that three travellers missionaries had stayed for a couple of months with their master, the King of Arda, and the good fathers had told them "that Madame de Montespan was the second spouse of the great King." These same missionaries had chosen the sort of presents which they were to give me. Comte de Vegin, Abbe of Saint Germain des Pres.
Embassy of the King of Arda. Political Influence Exercised by the Good Looks of Madame de Montespan. Gifts of the Envoys. What the Comte de Vegin Takes for a Horse. Madame de Montespan Entertains Them in Her Own House. Three Missionaries Recommend Her to Them. From the wilds of Africa, the King of Arda sent an embassy no less brilliant and far more singular than that of the Turks.
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