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It was in these houses, principally in the Hotel de Richelieu, much more still in the Hotel d'Albret, where the Marechal d'Albret lived in great state, that Madame Scarron made the majority of her acquaintances. The Marechal was cousin-german of M. de Montespan, very intimate with him, and with Madame de Montespan.
The Supply of Water. The King Seeks for Quiet. Creation of Marly. Tremendous Extravagance. Amours of the King. La Valliere. Montespan. Scandalous Publicity. Temper of Madame de Montespan. Her Unbearable Haughtiness. Other Mistresses. Madame de Maintenon. Her Fortunes. Her Marriage with Scarron. His Character and Society. How She Lived After His Death. Gets into Better Company.
Acquaintance with Madame de Montespan. The King's Children. His Dislike of Widow Scarron. Purchase of the Maintenon Estate. Further Demands. M. du Maine on His Travels. Montespan's Ill humour. Madame de Maintenon Supplants Her. Her Bitter Annoyance. Progress of the New Intrigue. Marriage of the King and Madame de Maintenon. Character of Madame de Maintenon. Her Conversation.
He had read the burlesque poetry of Scarron with some kind of indignation, as witty as it was, and found nothing in France that was worthy of his imitation; but he copied the Italian so well that his own may pass for an original. He writes it in the French heroic verse, and calls it an heroic poem; his subject is trivial, but his verse is noble.
"Well, then, why do you wish me to give up seeing such a man?" "Because he is an enemy." "Of whom?" "Of the cardinal." "What?" answered Scarron, "I continue to receive Monsieur Gilles Despreaux, who thinks ill of me, and you wish me to give up seeing the coadjutor, because he thinks ill of another man. Impossible!"
Mademoiselle d'Aubigne, all flushed with emotion, assured me of her gratitude with the ingenuous eloquence peculiar to herself. We embraced as two friends of the Albret set should do, and three days later, the King received a new petition, not signed with the name of Scarron, but with that of D'Aubigne.
She conceived a friendship for the obliging widow, and when she had her first children by the King M. du Maine and Madame la Duchesse, whom the King wished to conceal she proposed that they should be confided to Madame Scarron. A house in the Marais was accordingly given to her, to lodge in with them, and the means to bring them up, but in the utmost secrecy.
His love is exalted above that of Swift for Stella, Waller for Sacharissa, Scarron for Maintenon, and his godly fear as here exhibited is cited to offset the outspoken avowal of dishonoring desire. Hamann in a letter to Herder, June 26, 1780, speaks of the Yorick-Eliza correspondence quite disparagingly.
"Would you postpone my happiness till after your death?" "It would be horrible if you took it then, that is all I have to say." "Louis XIV. came very near marrying the niece of Mazarin, a parvenu." "Mazarin himself opposed it." "Remember the widow Scarron." "She was a d'Aubigne. Besides, the marriage was in secret. But I am very old, my son," she said, shaking her head.
I justified Madame Scarron on the matter before the King, when I asked her for the education of the Princes; and having rendered her this justice, from conviction rather than necessity, I shall certainly not charge her with it to-day. Madame de Maintenon possesses a fund of philosophy which she does not reveal nor confess to everybody.
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