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Updated: May 31, 2025
Madame was sometimes invited by the King, because she liked plays. This favour was much sought after. Madame de Maintenon wished to show that she had forgotten the past. Longepierre had written a very singular piece called "Electra," which was played on a magnificent stage erected in Madame de Conti's house, and all the Court flocked several times to see it.
I thought myself skilled in physiognomy, and concluded that she was not only perfectly happy, but also the cause of happiness. But here let me say how vain a thing it is for anyone to pronounce a man or woman to be happy or unhappy from a merely cursory inspection. Conti's wife did not cut any figure at all, and I was all eyes for the marchioness, whose name was Charlotte.
To relieve a little the seriousness of these memoirs, I will here relate an amusing adventure of which she was heroine. She was very avaricious, and a great gambler. She would have passed the night up to her knees in water in order to play. Heavy gambling at lansquenet was carried on at Paris in the evening, at Madame la Princesse de Conti's.
"How the devil do they venture so near the Hotel de Bouillon?" Athos smiled, but did not reply. Five minutes afterward they knocked at the prince's door. This door was guarded by a sentinel and there was also a guard placed in the courtyard, ready to obey the orders of the Prince de Conti's lieutenant.
No creature of her sex was ever played upon like an instrument with more Machiavellian penetration than the marquise throughout this week. "Yes, you are happy, but I!" she said, "to know of Conti's infidelities, and have to bear them!" "Why not leave him?" said Camille, seeing the hour had come to strike a decisive blow. "Can I?" "Oh! poor boy!"
The treaty was accordingly signed in the Prince de Conti's room at the Hotel de Ville, but I forbore to set my hand to it, though solicited by M. de Bouillon, unless they would come to some final resolution; yet I gave them my word that, if the Parliament would be contented, I had such expedients in my power as would give them all the time necessary to withdraw their troops.
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