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She came afterwards to Paris, young, clever, witty, and beautiful, without friends and without money; and by lucky chance made acquaintance with the famous Scarron. He found her amiable; his friends perhaps still more so.
The agitation of this scene threw Madame de Montespan into such a burning fever that for several days she could not be removed from her bed of pain and woe. Temptation resisted. Rumors of marriage. Preparations for the marriage. The archbishop summoned. An extraordinary scene. Ceremonies. The Widow Scarron. Etiquette. Humiliation of Madame de Montespan. Routine of a day at Versailles.
The brigadier, more amazed than ever, ordered the infant to be shown as well. Seeing that she could make no defence, Madame Scarron began to shed tears, and the officer, touched to pity, said: "Madame, I am sorry for your fault, for, as I see, you are a good mother.
Madame de Saintot has hastened to him with broth; La Renaudot warms his sheets; the Marquise de Rambouillet sends him his tisanes." "You don't like him, my dear Parthenie," said Scarron. "What an injustice, my dear invalid! I hate him so little that I should be delighted to order masses for the repose of his soul."
Letters from the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Everyman edition, 457. In Smollett's Ferdinand Count Fathom, Chap. XXXIX, Captain Miniken recommends as "modern authors that are worth reading" the Adventures of Loveill, Lady Frail, Bampfylde Moore Carew, Young Scarron, and Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
"Being about to acquire supreme power as a sovereign, she intends, by some grand marriage, to keep me there, and then appoint me her lady-in-waiting." "And you submit without a murmur to such appalling exile?" I said to Madame Scarron. "Is such a pretty, charming person as yourself fitted for a Court of that kind, and for such an odd sort of climate?"
Scarron, the husband of Mme. de Maintenon, lies buried here, as also the celebrated painter Philippe de Champagne, and one of his performances is amongst the pictures which decorate the church, being that of Jesus with Martha and Mary in the chapel of Ste. Genevieve; there are several other objects in this noble edifice so interesting, that no person who visits Paris should omit seeing it.
"The Electors of the German Empire are nearly all of them ecclesiastics; our own history of France will show you that the sons of kings were bishops or mere abbes; the grandson of the Duc de Savoie is a cardinal and an archbishop, and King Charles X., my grandfather's paternal uncle, nearly became King of France and cardinal at one and the same time." At this moment Madame Scarron came in.
Letters were there from persons in every class of life, a very large number from women, for the prisoner had charms which the fair sex have always found it difficult to resist. Madame Scarron had written to thank him for his bounty to the poor cripple whose name and roof protected her. The King had probably never before heard of this lady, who was to be the wife and ruler of his old age.
In his younger days, Scarron contributed largely to the pleasures of the Oiseaux des Tournelles, the ecclesiastical collar he then wore not being sufficient to prevent his enjoying worldly pleasures. In the course of time Scarron fell ill, and was reduced to a dreadful condition, no one coming to his succor but Ninon.
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