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Updated: June 26, 2025


Madame de Montespan, in great alarm, has told me that you wished to leave me. You leave me, my good friend! Where will you find a sky so pure and soft as the sky of France? Where will you find a King more tenderly attached to men of merit, more particularly, to my dear and illustrious Petitot?" At these words, pronounced with emotion, the artist felt the tears come into his eyes.

The Montespan, too, was a fine woman in her day, but fancy his picking up now with a widow who is older than himself, a woman, too, who does not even try to make herself attractive, but kneels at her prie-dieu or works at her tapestry from morning to night. They say that December and May make a bad match, but my own opinion is that two Novembers make an even worse one. Louvois! Louvois!

Dismissal of Madame de Montespan. Resolves to build a convent. Her great wealth. The convent of St. Joseph completed. The king recovers, and goes to Flanders. Return to Versailles. Political ambition of Louis XIV. Sickness and death of the queen, Maria Theresa. Tribute to her worth. Masses. Versailles. Heartlessness of the king and of the courtiers. Accident. Death of the minister of finance.

It is natural that Madame de Montespan seeks to excuse her people and herself if she can. At Ruel, she dared take the same tone before the Duchesse de Richelieu, who rebuked her for officiousness, and out of spite, or some other reason, Madame de Maintenon refused to dine.

She cried out in anger against Madame de Montespan and her son; complained loudly that after having been so pitilessly fleeced, Lauzun was still kept removed from her; and made such a stir that at last she obtained permission for him to return to Paris, with entire liberty; on condition, however, that he did not approach within two leagues of any place where the King might be.

The Difference between Cromwell and a Trunkmaker. Delicate Restitutions. The Bourbons of Madame de Montespan. The diamond is, beyond contradiction, the most beautiful creation of the hands of God, in the order of inanimate objects.

"She was dead to me the day she entered the Carmelites'," said the king, thirty-five years later, when the modest and fervent nun at last expired, in 1710, without having ever relaxed the severities of her penance. Of an entirely different type from Mlle. de La Vallière was that haughtiest and most supercilious of all French mistresses, Mme. de Montespan.

The King and his mistress at last closed their conversation; the King dressed himself again, and went to his own rooms. Madame de Montespan went away to her toilette, in order to prepare for the rehearsal of a ballet to which the King, the Queen, and all the Court were going.

The invitation to the representations in St. Cyr was looked upon as a court favour; flattery and scandal delighted to discover allusions throughout the piece; Ahasuerus was said to represent Louis XIV; Esther, Madame de Maintenon; the proud Vasti, who is only incidentally alluded to, Madame de Montespan; and Haman, the Minister Louvois.

Madame do La Valliere had held sway over the young and passionate heart of the prince, Madame de Montespan over the court, Madame de Maintenon alone established her empire over the man and the king.

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