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The King continued, "Madame, I know that the late M. de Scarron was a man of much wit and also of agreeable manners. My cousin, De Beaufort, used to rave about him, but on account of his somewhat free poems, his name lacks weight and dignity. In fact, his name in no way fits so charming a personality as yours; would it grieve you to change it?"
'I do not know, she added, brusquely, 'what Madame Scarron does; she is always the same. "The lady in waiting answered on the spot: 'Madame, no one finds you changed, either, and it is always the same thing. "The half-polite, half-bantering tone of Madame de Maintenon nonplussed the Palatine for the moment; she wished to demand an explanation from the lady in waiting.
Simon; she was fond of conversation; Madame Scarron had a reputation of being rather a blue-stocking; this the king did not like; Madame de Montespan had her way; Madame Scarron took charge of the children secretly and in an isolated house. She was attentive, careful, sensible. The king was struck with her devotion to the children intrusted to her.
She thought of the little cottage, when she read of Madame Scarron among the French wits. She described them to Cousin Jennie when the tall black figure was going slowly up the road. "Yes, they have a good many visitors," said Jennie. "They did last summer, when poor Mrs. Poe was alive." "Was she very beautiful?" "Oh, child, beauty isn't everything!" and Jennie smiled. "Yes; it was said she was.
Scarron had received numerous favors from her, and being one of her select "Birds," who had always agreed with la Rochefoucauld that, "There are many good marriages but none that are delicious," she assumed that her friend would never entangle himself in the bonds of matrimony. But he did and to his sorrow.
Scarron alludes to the delicacy of the Count's taste and the refinement of his wit, by saying of him: "The muses brought him up on blanc mange and chicken broth." How Ninon kept together this remarkable coterie can best be understood by an incident unparalleled in female annals.
When the King had gone, Madame Scarron asked me why I disapproved of this abbey. "I do not wish to deny so rich a benefice to my son," I replied, "but it seems to me that he might enjoy the revenues therefrom, without being obliged to wear the livery. Is not the King powerful enough to effect this?" "You are hardly just, madame," replied the governess, in a serious tone.
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.
"Was Bien-Bon with you when you made that little excursion to St. Germain?" queried the duchesse. "Ah, that was a gay night," joyously responded Madame de Sevigne. "How well we amused ourselves on that little visit that we paid Madame de Maintenon when she was only Madame Scarron." "Was she so handsome then as they say she was at that time?"
Novelists and scribblers brought the reign of Louis XV into disrepute. Do not believe them. The du Barry, my dear, was quite as good as the Widow Scarron, and the more agreeable woman of the two. In my time a woman could keep her dignity among her gallantries. Indiscretion was the ruin of us, and the beginning of all the mischief.
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