Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
The Duc du Maine shows him the respect inspired by his governess, but the Comte de Vermandois, long separated from his mother, has been less coached in this respect, and being thoroughly candid and sincere, shows little restraint.
The King was informed of this adventure; he immediately gave expression to his extreme dissatisfaction, and said: "What! is there hatred and discord already amongst my children?" I spoke next to elucidate the facts, for I had learnt everything, and I represented M. de Vermandois as unjustly provoked by his brother.
He then drew near Madame de Maintenon, who heard all his compliments, said to him, in Italian, all that could be said, and did him the honour to lean on his hand when descending from her tribune to return to the King's. On the next day the Doge and senators came to present their homage to my children, and did not forget me in their visits of ceremony. The Comte de Vermandois.
He left a number of works on education. An abbé of the seventeenth century who wrote a much valued "History of the Church," and a "Treatise on the Method and Choice of Studies." He was tutor to Count Vermandois, natural son to Louis XIV. A professor of mathematics, born at Lausanne, tutor to Prince Fredrick of Hesse Cassel. "Passion is not born of familiar things."
He assures me that my pain is in my knee instead of being in the spleen, and that is what we were amusing ourselves at, quite innocently." "Your brother thinks himself my equal," added the Prince; "in which he certainly makes a mistake. All his diamonds prove nothing; I shall have, when I like, those of the crown." "So much the worse, monsieur," replied the Comte de Vermandois, quickly.
He had been married, as part of the treaty, to Gisele, daughter of King Charles the Simple, but he was an old grizzly warrior, and neither cared for the other. A wife whom he had long before taken from Vermandois had borne him a son, named William, to whom he left his dukedom in 932.
"The king finding himself confined in the castle, a small one at that, and having seen a force of archers standing before the gate, was terrified for his person the more so that he was lodged in the neighbourhood of a tower where a certain Count de Vermandois had caused the death of one of his predecessors as king of France.
"The duke being in despair at the death, at the instigation of other people as much concerned as himself, wrote letters full of bitter accusations against the king to several towns an action that profited little for nothing was done about it. ... In this violent passion the duke proceeded towards Nesle in Vermandois, and commenced a kind of warfare such as he had never used before, burning and destroying wherever he passed."
Therefore the brave and spirited John, watching from Paris this insolent raid into his dominions, sent messengers in hot haste to all these great feudatories as well as to Lorraine, Picardy, Auvergne, Hainault, Vermandois, Champagne, and to the German mercenaries over his eastern border, bidding all of them to ride hard, with bloody spur, day and night, until they should gather to a head at Chartres.
"When you have any information to send me relative to the prisoner who has been in your charge for twenty years, I most earnestly enjoin on you to take the same precautions as when you write to M. de Louvois." The Comte de Vermandois, the official registration of whose death bears the date 1685, cannot have been twenty years a prisoner in 1691.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking